Books Quotes and Sayings - Page 6
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Mortimer Adler
Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E.M. Forster
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Margaret Fuller
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
Anatole France
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
No furniture so charming as books.
Sydney Smith
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
Jan Morris
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Augustine Birrell,
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Anonymous
Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.
Bulstrode Whitlock
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
Plato
An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
Walter Raleigh
‘What is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversation?’
Lewis Carroll
Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total.
Forsyth and Rada
Never judge a book by its movie.
J.W. Eagan
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
John LeCarre
Never judge a cover by its book.
Fran Lebowitz
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Bible: Ecclesiastes
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed!…The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.
Thomas De Quincey
When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.’
Hilaire Belloc
The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected…Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.
Jean d Alembert
Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Borrowers of books – those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Charles Lamb
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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