Books Quotes and Sayings


To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.
John Aikin

Reading means borrowing.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Books are made not like children but like pyramids…and they’re just as useless! and they stay in the desert!…Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
Gustave Flaubert

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
James Bryce

Only your friends steal your books.
Voltaire

Books, I don’t know what you see in them…I can understand a person reading them, but I can’t for the life of me see why people have to write them.
Peter Ustinov

A dirty book is rarely dusty.
Anonymous

A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate

Few books today are forgivable.
R. D. Laing

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
Arabic Proverb

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
G.K. Chesterton

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Edward P. Morgan

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan Pearsall Smith

The books that help you most are those which make you think the 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 Parker

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Daniel J. Boorstein

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Francis Bacon

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb

It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
J. M. Barrie

My Book and Heart Must never part.
Anonymous

Lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
Thomas Jefferson

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.
Philip Larkin

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
George Steiner

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell

Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.
George Crabbe

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
William Feather

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