Books Quotes

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Thomas Carlyle

Buying 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.

Arthuer Schopenhaue

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Donald J. Adams

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 Adrien Helvetius

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Emerson

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

G. K. Chesterton

Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

Bette Midle

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parke

Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

E. M. Forste

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Oscar Wilde

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Edward Morgan Forste

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

Sir W. Temple

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

Mark Twain

Read much, but not many books.

Benjamin Franklin

Why dont you write books people can read.

Nora Joyce, to her husband James

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

Alfred A. Montapert

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Walter Bagehot

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.

Anna Garlin Spence

Books may well be the only true magic.

Alice Hoffman

I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Umberto Eco

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

Ralph Waldo Emerson