Books Quotes
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.Sir Arthur Eddington
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
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
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
Why dont you write books people can read.Nora Joyce, to her husband James
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.Laurie Anderson
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
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
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
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?Bette Midle
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
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.Henry Ward Beeche
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.Ford Maddox
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
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
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
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
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.Peter S. Prescott
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.Voltaire
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.Van Wyck Brooks
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.Thomas Carlyle
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
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
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
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
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
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
Books may well be the only true magic.Alice Hoffman
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
