Books Quotes

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

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Sir Francis Bacon

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Alan King

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

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

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

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.

Henry Ward Beeche

Read much, but not many books.

Benjamin Franklin

Why dont you write books people can read.

Nora Joyce, to her husband James

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.

Thomas More

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Sir John Denham

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

Alfred A. Montapert

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Ford Maddox

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Mortimer Adle

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

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

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

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

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Voltaire

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

I live for books.

Thomas Jefferson

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

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Christopher Dawson

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca