Books Quotes
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
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
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
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
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.Laurie Anderson
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.Ford Maddox
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
Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author.Martin Luthe
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.Sir John Harington
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
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?Bette Midle
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.E. M. Forste
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
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
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
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
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
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
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
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
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.Thomas Davidson
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
A home without books is a body without soul.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.Umberto Eco
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
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.Heinrich Heine
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.Sir Francis Bacon
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
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.Desiderius Erasmus
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
