Books Quotes
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.Thomas More
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
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 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, The Happy Life, 1896
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.Voltaire
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.Michel de Montaigne
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
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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
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
I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.Charles Lam
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
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.John Hope Franklin
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
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
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
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
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
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
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.Horace
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
