Books Quotes

Bell hooks, o magazine, december 2003 - life - transforming ideas have always come to me...
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
Walter bagehot - the reason why so few good books are written is...
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.
Thomas Carlyle
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 give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington
Why dont you write books people can read.
Nora Joyce, to her husband James
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Samuel Paterson
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.
Henry Holt
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
Spanish Prove
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beeche
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
Saint Bernard, Epistle
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
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
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
Carl Lotus Becke
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Sir W. Temple
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
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
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookne
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
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
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler, The Note - Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.
Paul Fussell
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Paxton Hood
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.
Desiderius Erasmus
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.
Francois Arouet
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.
Paxton Hood
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Heinrich Heine