Books Quotes
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.Oscar Wilde
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.Robert Fulghum
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
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Mark Twain
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
The true university of these days is a collection of books.Thomas Carlyle
I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.Charles Lam
You can cover a great deal of country in books.Andrew Lang
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.Donald J. Adams
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.Umberto Eco
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 own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
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
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Read much, but not many books.Benjamin Franklin
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
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.Desiderius Erasmus
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.John Hope Franklin
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
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
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
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.Alan King
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Christopher Dawson
