Books Quotes

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.
- Charles W Eliot

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
- Bertrand Russell

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
- C C Colton

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never read any book that is not a year old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in a book!
- Bible