Quotes

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
-Francis Bacon

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-Bert Williams

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

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

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

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

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

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
-Harold Bloom

Truly, associating with bad books is often more dangerous than associating with bad people.
-Wilhelm Hauff

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
-Robert Chambers

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
-Stephen Vincent Benet

If you want to improve the world, first improve yourself. If you want to improve yourself, read a book.
-J. Millard Simpson

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-Oscar Wilde

There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read.
-Anonymous Author

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

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

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

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

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

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
-Charles Caleb Colton

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-Mark Twain

Books... are like movies in your mind, only with better special effects.
-J. Millard Simpson

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

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
-Martin Farquhar Tupper

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
-Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

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

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

A single book at the right time can change our views dramatically, give a quantum boost to our knowledge, help us construct a whole new outlook on the world and our life. Isn't it odd that we don't seek those experiences more systematically?
-Steve Leveen

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

Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
-Philip James Bailey

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
-Thomas Carlyle

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
-Albert Camus

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
-Bell Hooks

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

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

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

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

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

Never judge a book by its movie.
-J W Eagan

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books
-Katherine Mansfield

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

Choose an author as you choose a friend.
-Sir Christopher Wren

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
-W H Auden