Books Quotes
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
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
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.Sir John Lubbock
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.Peter S. Prescott
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.Pietro Aretino
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.Mark Twain
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.Ford Maddox
Why dont you write books people can read.Nora Joyce, to her husband James
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
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
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.Voltaire
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.Samuel Paterson
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
A room without books is like a body without a soul.G. K. Chesterton
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.Arthur Schopenhaue
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
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.Shakespeare
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.Lyndon B. Johnson
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.Romare Beardon
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.Calvin Trillin
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.Laurie Anderson
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.Mary Wortley Montagu
