Books Quotes
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
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
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
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
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
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
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.Carl Sagan
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.Voltaire
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.Oscar Wilde
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.Emerson
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!
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
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
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.Samuel Paterson
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
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
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
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
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.Shakespeare
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
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.John Hope Franklin
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.Sir John Lubbock
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
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.Henry Ward Beeche
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
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I still find each day too 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
Books may well be the only true magic.Alice Hoffman
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
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 Butle
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
