Books Quotes

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Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.
Henry Holt
Carl sagan - all of the books in the world contain no more...
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Heinrich Heine
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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, Lacon, 1820
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
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
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Francis Bacon
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
Spanish Prove
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
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
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
John Hope Franklin
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 love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.
Desiderius Erasmus
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
Henry Ward Beeche
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
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
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
Miguel de Cervantes
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
Van Wyck Brooks
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.
H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science - Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells".
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare
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
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.
Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sir John Denham
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins
A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Charles Lam
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.
Thomas More
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes
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