Books Quotes

Lucius annaeus seneca - it does not matter how many books you have, but...
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
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
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
Nora joyce, to her husband james - why dont you write books people can read....
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
If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.
Paul Fussell
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
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
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".
Walter bagehot - the reason why so few good books are written is...
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
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
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
Evan Esa
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 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
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
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Sir W. Temple
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
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
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.
Desiderius Erasmus
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Samuel Paterson
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sir John Denham
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Heinrich Heine
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
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
Andrew Lang
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
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
Peter S. Prescott
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.
Charles Jones
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
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
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
Karl Kraus