Books Quotes
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
A room without books is like a body without a soul.G. K. Chesterton
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
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
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
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
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
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
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
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
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
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
The true university of these days is a collection of books.Thomas Carlyle
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.William Shakespeare
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.Alan King
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.Samuel Paterson
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.Oscar Wilde
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.Umberto Eco
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
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.Laurie Anderson
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.Spanish Prove
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
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
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
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.Thomas More
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.Henry Ward Beeche
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
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.Heinrich Heine
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
