Books Quotes
I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.Charles Lam
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
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
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.William Shakespeare
Why dont you write books people can read.Nora Joyce, to her husband James
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
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
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
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
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
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Mark Twain
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.Heinrich Heine
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
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
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.Samuel Butle
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
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
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
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
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.Lord Chesterfield
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.Peter S. Prescott
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
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.Sir William Osle
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
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
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?Karl Kraus
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
Read much, but not many books.Benjamin Franklin
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.Lyndon B. Johnson
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
