Books Quotes

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

I still find each day to 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

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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

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

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

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Jackie Collins

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parke

Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Thomas Carlyle

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.

Carl Lotus Becke

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

George Withe

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 think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

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

Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beeche

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

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

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Sir John Harington

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara Tuchman

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

When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.

Thomas More

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

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Christopher Dawson

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Evan Esa

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt

I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Charles Lam

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

Bette Midle

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Ford Maddox

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Sir W. Temple

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Umberto Eco

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Henry C. Rogers