Books Quotes

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
- Walter Pitkin

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

The newest books are those that never grow old.
- Holbrook Jackson

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

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
- Bill Watterson

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
- Ernest Dimnet

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
- Bible