Books Quotes
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.Calvin Trillin
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.Voltaire
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)
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
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.Paxton Hood
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.Sir John Harington
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
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
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
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
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
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
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.Romare Beardon
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.Umberto Eco
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?Bette Midle
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
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.Alfred A. Montapert
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.Shakespeare
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
