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title: "35 Books Men Quotes by 25 authors"
description: "Browse 35 Books Men quotes by 25 authors. Discover the best Books Men sayings and thoughts."
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> [Women are books, and men the readers be...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/women-are-books-and-men-the-readers-be/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [Books are men of higher stature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/books-are-men-of-higher-stature/)

[Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/)

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> [Books are not men and yet they stay alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/books-are-not-men-and-yet-they-stay-alive/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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> [Books are not men and yet they are alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/books-are-not-men-and-yet-they-are-alive/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

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> [It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-my-ambition-to-say-in-ten-sentences-what-other-men-say-in-whole/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/keep-away-from-books-and-from-men-who-get-their-ideas-from-books-and/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-payne/the-books-of-men-have-their-day-and-grow-obsolete-god-s-word-is-like/)

[Robert Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-payne/)

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> [The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-modernness-of-all-good-books-seems-to-give-men-an-existence-as/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/pollio-who-values-nothing-that-s-within-buys-books-as-men-hunt/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-with-books-as-with-men-a-very-small-number-play-a-great-part-2/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

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> [If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-i-read-as-many-books-as-most-men-do-i-would-be-as-dull-witted-as/)

[Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/)

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> [Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/books-are-men-of-higher-stature-and-the-only-men-that-speak-aloud-for/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-ransome/fishing-books-lit-by-emotion-recollected-in-tranquility-are-like/)

[Arthur Ransome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-ransome/)

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> [Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/books-are-not-men-and-yet-they-are-alive-they-are-man-s-memory-and/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

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> [“Yes, yes, if you please. No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/yes-yes-if-you-please-no-reference-to-examples-in-books-men-have-had/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/what-can-books-of-men-that-wive-in-a-dragon-guarded-land-paintings-of/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherwood-smith/female-authors-were-still-using-male-names-when-i-was-young-or-they/)

[Sherwood Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherwood-smith/)

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> [“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/perhaps-i-shall-yes-yes-if-you-please-no-reference-to-examples-in-2/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-paretsky/in-1986-we-were-trying-to-help-women-get-in-print-stay-in-print-and/)

[Sara Paretsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-paretsky/)

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> [“Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/buy-for-me-from-the-king-s-own-kennels-the-finest-elk-hounds-of-the/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-do-not-think-i-ever-opened-a-book-in-my-life-which-had-not/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/one-that-has-well-digested-his-knowledge-both-of-books-and-men-has/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/there-are-some-people-who-read-too-much-the-bibliobibuli-i-know-some/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/i-owe-all-my-originality-such-as-it-is-to-my-determination-not-to-be/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/perhaps-i-shall-yes-yes-if-you-please-no-reference-to-examples-in/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-quarles/read-not-books-alone-but-men-and-amongst-them-chiefly-thyself-if-thou/)

[Francis Quarles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-quarles/)

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> [“But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lyon-phelps-1933/but-in-a-private-library-you-can-at-any-moment-converse-with-socrates/)

William Lyon Phelps - 1933

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> [“It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/it-really-is-an-appalling-thing-to-think-of-the-people-who-have-no/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

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> [“The best books... The best books of men are soon exhausted-- they are cisterns, and not springing fountains. You enjoy them very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-h-spurgeon/the-best-books-the-best-books-of-men-are-soon-exhausted-they-are/)

[Charles H. Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-h-spurgeon/)

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> [“If I had been asked in my early youth whether I preferred to have dealings only with men or only with books,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/if-i-had-been-asked-in-my-early-youth-whether-i-preferred-to-have/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-with-books-as-with-men-a-very-small-number-play-a-great-part/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

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> [Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-quarles/read-not-books-alone-but-men-and-amongst-them-chiefly-thyself/)

[Francis Quarles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-quarles/)

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> [There is a big difference between the books that men make and the book that makes men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-is-a-big-difference-between-the-books-that-men-make-and-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Women are much more than men in touch with their emotional intelligence. That explains why women read fiction books while men stick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-z-riffi/women-are-much-more-than-men-in-touch-with-their-emotional/)

[M.Z.Riffi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-z-riffi/)

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> [“That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/that-wisedome-is-acquired-not-by-reading-of-books-but-of-men/)

[Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/)

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                        "text": "“But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They \"laid themselves out,\" they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart.”",
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                        "text": "“It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men and women can lift themselves above the sordidness of life. No books! Yet for the greater part of humanity that is the common lot. We may, in fact, divide our fellow-creatures into two branches - those who read books and those who do not.”",
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                        "text": "“The best books... The best books of men are soon exhausted-- they are cisterns, and not springing fountains. You enjoy them very much at the first acquaintance, and you think you could hear them a hundred times over- but you could not- you soon find them wearisome. Very speedily a man eats too much honey: even children at length are cloyed with sweets. All human books grow stale after a time- but with the Word of God the desire to study it increases, while the more you know of it the less you think you know. The Book grows upon you: as you dive into its depths you have a fuller perception of the infinity which remains to be explored. You are still sighing to enjoy more of that which it is your bliss to taste.”",
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                        "text": "“If I had been asked in my early youth whether I preferred to have dealings only with men or only with books, my answer would certainly have been in favor of books. In later years this has become less and less the case. Not that I have had so much better experiences with men than with books; on the contrary, purely delightful books even now come my way more often than purely delightful men. But the many bad experiences with men have nourished the meadow of my life as the noblest book could not do, and the good experiences have made the earth into a garden for me. […:] Here is an infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude, but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth, even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.”",
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