There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
The ancient books are everything I want; their wisdom is the balm that soothes my pain.
Moses Ibn Ezra
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles De Secondat
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace Mann
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
Desiderius Erasmus
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sir Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Sir Francis Bacon
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
G. K. Chesterton
Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein
There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.
Augusto Roa Bastos
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.
Rumer Godden
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Paxton Hood
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.
Jeanette Winterson
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
William Feather
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
Ralph Novak
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
George Brett
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Harper Lee
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Lawrence Clark Powell
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
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
Mary Ellen Chase
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen King
There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word 'banal' sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say 'underedited,' I say 'derivative.' The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.
Anna Quindlen
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Avram Noam Chomsky
I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book.
James Walker
This book fills a much-needed gap.
Moses Hadas
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Garson Kanin
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
Arnold Lobel
Oh for a book and a shady nook...
John Wilson
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon
This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished.
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies
Live always in the best company when you read.
Sydney Smith
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses Hadas
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard M. Baruch
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Sir Arthur Helps
The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned, And all the errata will appear at the end.
Francis Quarles
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
Lawrence Clark Powell
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
George Herbert
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
Spencer Tracy
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan
A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.
Anthony Burgess
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
Ruth Gordon
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher
A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
Thomas Kempis
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Upton Sinclair
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with.
Lawrence Clark Powell
Books are embalmed minds.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
Mark Twain
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
Mark Twain
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
William Ellery Channing
The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.
John Mason Brown
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create somethin.
Lawrence Clark Powell
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
Andrew Lang
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
William Styron
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Dame Rose Macaulay
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
Madeleine L'Engle
Real poverty is lack of books.
Sidonie Gabrielle
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.
Isaac Disraeli
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Marie de Sevigne
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Dorothy L. Sayers
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra Pound
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
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Edward G. Bulwer lytton
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace Mann
A house without books is like room without windows.
Horace Mann
Read much, but not many books.
Benjamin Franklin
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Sir Francis Bacon
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
Spanish Proverb
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Heinrich Heine
This is one for the record books.
Jimmy Jones
I think you always go out and do books based on what you're curious about.
David Halberstam
She read a lot of books on it.
David Kirby
[It] will inject new life into the marketing of books.
Nigel Newton
People buy books [and] Amazon is so easy. Go to the library instead.
Jane Bryant Quinn
It's a tradition and the books from past years are so good.
Laura Baker
I never find books that interest me, something that doesn't take a long time to get into.
David Horn
That's not a guarantee it will be done in three books.
Robert Jordan
I like to have them groaning with books.
Toni Mcallister
He wrote 16 books and most of them are not about flying and the military.
Scott Fraser
That's back on the books for late spring.
Dena Jackson
Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman
It's one thing to put this business on the books. It's far more important to maximize the profit from it.
Brian L. Halla
She's brought unparalleled excitement and attention to books. All of America should be grateful to her.
Jane Friedman
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury
Do we buy vaccines or books?
Maximino Medina Jr
It was really a good home for anything that had to do with writing and books. That was our life.
May Waldroup
Having been on the board before, I said, 'This isn't acceptable,' ... 'We can't have a district that can't keep a set of books.'
Charles E. Wood
There really are a lot of outstanding books published for young adults.
Kathleen Horning
There's a bunch of kids ? and they eat and talk about books.
Charity Hegna
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Francesco Petrarch
The government should make use of the laws we already have on the books (to stop pornography).
Vivi Widyawati
We'll be here selling books and, if you support us, we'll be here for another 50 years.
Clark Kepler
We're not aware of everything we've published. Back in the '50s, '60s and '70s, there were no electronic files for those books.
Tony Sanfilippo
Since they are nonperforming assets, banks generally want to get them off their books as quickly as possible.
Todd Beitler
That money would have come out of our general fund, ... That's a lot of books.
Dennis Murray
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
Jorge Luis Borges
The idea is to keep as many planes as we can in our books.
Ajay Singh
We have a lot of books so this will be a new element that should be exciting.
Jolene Polyack
We had books in our library already on this art. That meant we could do research in our own collection.
Karen Mcguire
TEA is tightening up. If we have 100 students, we can only order 103 books.
Robert Keener
Most of the titles are quotes from books or movies.
Spencer Smith
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Julian Barnes
A lot of the books, I have no idea what happened to them, ... It's certainly a fun thing to do.
Sandra Collins
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Many people ask, 'Why are they coming back?' The answer is that these books never went away.
Douglas Gresham
It's sure to be one for the books.
Bill Stokes
We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.
Ron Cooper
Publishers often discount books for overseas markets.
Steve Loyola
Phone books are a librarians secret weapon.
Karen Moore
Before, you would haul out the language books, and they would start groaning.
Kathy Deepe
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Ninon de Lenclos
Every one of these books is going to have one really big surprise in it to make people say, 'I didn't realize that,'.
Thomas Cahill
We want to get ourselves into the history books, too.
Jevon Kearse
The more money we receive, the nicer books we can afford.
Suzanne Chase
Removing books from the library is a no-no.
Diane Ravitch
To be in the history books of anything is fantastic.
Michael Rogers
He had to wait a lot, sit and wait. He was always trying to improve himself. These were not frivolous books.
Gail Wilson
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass.
Japanese Proverb
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books.
Maureen Corrigan
People don't read text books and 400-page biographies anymore.
Nic Buchanan
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.
Marguerite Yourcenar
I'm also a fan of the books, long before I got into the movie.
Chris Rankin
Other projects talk about snippets. We don't talk about snippets. We talk about books.
Brewster Kahle
I have read all four of the books and think they are absolutely wonderful.
Jack The Ripper
We carry it on our books as leased equipment. We have to account for it somehow.
John Skalko
We wrapped 467 age-appropriate paperback books for the kids.
Jeana Studer
I will have to keep my nose in the books and not slip behind.
Amber Freeman
Can you expect your lawyer to know those? I don't think they're in any law books.
David Stanley
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
Laurie Anderson
I like the books because the heroines don't do what others want them to, they do what they want.
Alice Hyde
Franz Ferdinand: Hooks And Books.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
I brought books, but I haven't had much time to open them.
Chris Hunt
He has a small 13-inch TV, eight CDs, six books.
Larry Hackett
You need to have both schools on the books at the same time.
Stephanie Kraft
We're talking about students pocket books and what they'll have to pay.
Luci Willits
We felt we couldn't set it just next to someone else's law books.
David Ferris
We actually plot the books together.
Paul Stewart
We had a class of 135 a few years ago, now we're lucky to have 100. So we really do have 40 extra books.
Tim Kolesar
...promises to be one of the most influential books of the 21st century.
Karen Davis
We are going to look at the books and try to make the adjustments for tomorrow.
Mark Salter
I got my books stolen. They wanted my work.
Sequoia Mckinney
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