Books Quotes

Paul valery - books have the same enemies as people fire,...
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
Mark twain - be careful about reading health books. you may...
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
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
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.
Robert Fulghum
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
Andrew Lang
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.
Desiderius Erasmus
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
Spanish Prove
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
John Hope Franklin
I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.
George Withe
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.
Charles Jones
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
Samuel Smiles
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?
Bette Midle
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Sir Arthur Eddington
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beeche
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.
Henry Holt
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
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Henry C. Rogers
Who knows why we live, and 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 Stewart Paton
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.
Thomas More
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William E. Channing
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adle
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Sir William Osle
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
Karl Kraus
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman
Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author.
Martin Luthe