Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.
William DavenantWhat literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S ByattFor books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Gene FowlerThe wise are above books.
Samuel DanielThe best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George OrwellBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W B YeatsAs far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted
Paul LyndeNext in importance to books are their titles.
Frank CraneAlthough most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
Norman AugustineIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayBookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
Barbara Taylor BradfordYour second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Leigh HuntThe pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine MansfieldBooks of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
Robert AndrewsThere were two things Janey Little loved best in the world: music and books, and not necessarily in that order.
Charles De LintBooks, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim BishopIf you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Lily TomlinIt is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
Frederick Locker-LampsonBorrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Peter F DruckerThere's a million of those self-help books to tell you to just see it and believe it and it's going to happen. That's a great policy
James BlakeI think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me
J K RowlingThe booger jokes. And my editor always takes out four letter words when I put then in the children's books. And the sex parts [on the difference between kids and adults books]
Meg CabotIs it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
Thomas TraherneThe silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations
Henry GilesI went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic.
Jason IsaacsWhen I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Mike TysonThese are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert HighetThe wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin YutangBooks are a languid pleasure
MontaigneA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt WhitmanBooks that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
Thomas Bailey AldrichIf my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come
Raymond ChandlerBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.
Rainer Maria RilkeSome books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W H AudenCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawBooks think for me. I can read anything which I call a book
Charles LambIt wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William FaulknerBuying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur SchopenhauerI've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
Pamela StephensonWhy don't you write books people can read?
Nora JoyceBooks, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J P GettyBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David ThoreauBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamAmericans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
Bob BeauprezObservation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson AlcottMaster books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftThe great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones
Joseph JoubertLet's tell young people the best books are yet to written: the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them [a nice and positive quote!]
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