For 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 FowlerBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara TuchmanBooks that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel JohnsonWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceA bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
GalbraithBooks are humanity in print.
Barbara TuchmanWe really have no definition of mother in our lawbooks.
Marianne O BattaniWhat literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S ByattA book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto EcoBooks are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher My father said, 'There are times to sit, or stand and be counted,'
When good people die, just laws are forsaken, banned books smolder,
There comes a time when our steed must be armored and mounted;
The balance of good and evil rests on our collective shoulders.
Jason MercheyBookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
Barbara Taylor BradfordIt 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-LampsonBooks are a languid pleasure
MontaigneBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamThe wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin YutangBooks, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim BishopThe newest books are those that never grow old
Holbrook JacksonThe best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George OrwellAs life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?
P G WodehouseA buck in the hand is worth two on the books.
David FarberI 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 RowlingAmericans 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 AlcottBooks 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 YeatsI have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell FordAlthough 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 AugustineBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
Mark TwainAn apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel ButlerBe 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 RilkeIt is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections
David HumeThe 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 GilesTo read too many books is harmful.
Mao ZedongNever lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole FranceWherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned. (Almansor)
Heinrich HeineNo matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men
John Alfred LangfordYou've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Spike LeeBooks are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningIf some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
Herman MelvilleThe most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
Laurence SterneYour second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Leigh HuntIf 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 TomlinThe impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
Richard WrightEvery reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Cornelia FunkeBooks 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 AndrewsIf 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 ThackerayThe 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 CabotBetween the covers of the books that no-one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.
Gabriel MarquezIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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