Books Quotes
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Books may well be the only true magic.Alice Hoffman
The true university of these days is a collection of books.Thomas Carlyle
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
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
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
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
You can cover a great deal of country in books.Andrew Lang
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.Michel de Montaigne
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
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
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
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.Sir Arthur Eddington
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.Ford Maddox
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.Peter S. Prescott
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
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
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
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
A room without books is like a body without a soul.G. K. Chesterton
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
I cannot live without books.Thomas Jefferson
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
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
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
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".
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
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
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.Claude Adrien Helvetius
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
