Books Quotes
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science - Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells".
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.Thomas More
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
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 have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.Samuel Paterson
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.Heinrich Heine
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
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
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.Alfred A. Montapert
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.Evan Esa
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
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.Jean Anouilh
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.Desiderius Erasmus
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
I cannot live without books.Thomas Jefferson
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.Voltaire
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
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 Butler, The Note - Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
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
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.Paxton Hood
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.Voltaire
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.Charles Lam
