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It 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-Lampson

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book
Charles Lamb

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
Barbara Taylor Bradford

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
Isaac Disraeli

If 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 Thackeray

In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential - the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.
Jeffrey Farnol

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Julian Barnes

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
B C Forbes

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S Byatt

If 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 Chandler

To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
Mark Twain

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Theodor Geisel

England did nothing in the World Cup, so why are the players bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals, we played like sh*t, here's my book'. Who wants to read that? I don't. [To be fair he has an excellent point - it's not even like they need the cash on their salaries!]
Joey Barton

Never 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 France

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William Faulkner

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
Claude Arien Helvetius

My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, 'You are a thief.'
Martial

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John Dawkins

Books are a languid pleasure
Montaigne

Obviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K Rowling

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette Midler

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell Ford

As 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 Lynde

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William Faulkner

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Lionel Trilling

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all
Francois De Salignac Fenelon

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burrough

Books 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 Yeats

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra Pound

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can cover a great deal of country in books
Andrew Lang

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw

You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them
Martial

The newest books are those that never grow old
Holbrook Jackson

Although 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 Augustine

Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Spike Lee

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang

Books 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 Andrews

Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen
Samuel Paterson

If 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 Tomlin

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tryon Edwards

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J P Getty



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