Books Quotes
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
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.Ford Maddox
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.Rene Descartes
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
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.Heinrich Heine
I still find each day to 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
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Francis Bacon
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.Sir Arthur Eddington
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
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.Spanish Prove
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.Thomas More
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
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.Laurie Anderson
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.Horace
A home without books is a body without soul.Marcus Tullius Cicero
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
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
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
You can cover a great deal of country in books.Andrew Lang
I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.Charles Lam
Why dont you write books people can read.Nora Joyce, to her husband James
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
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
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
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".
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
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
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.Katherine Paterson
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
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
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
