Books Quotes

Martin luthe - christ is the master the scriptures are only the...
Elie wiesel, o magazine, november 2000 - i have no doubt that faith is only pure when it...
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 give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
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 average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.
Calvin Trillin
Samuel butle - an apology for the devil: it must be remembered...
Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William E. Channing
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.
Sir Francis Bacon
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
Karl Kraus
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Heinrich Heine
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
Why dont you write books people can read.
Nora Joyce, to her husband James
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
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
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.
Desiderius Erasmus
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Voltaire
Read much, but not many books.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
Heinrich Heine
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
Evan Esa
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Ford Maddox
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?
Bette Midle
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sir John Denham
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
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.
Frank Zappa
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Sir Arthur Eddington
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
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
James Baldwin
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.
Thomas Carlyle
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".
Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare