Books Quotes
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
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.Sir John Harington
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
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 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
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
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
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.Evan Esa
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Christopher Dawson
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.Samuel Paterson
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
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.Robert Fulghum
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.William Shakespeare
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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)
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
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A room without books is like a body without a soul.G. K. Chesterton
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
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
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
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
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
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
Books may well be the only true magic.Alice Hoffman
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.Sir John Lubbock
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
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
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
