Book Quote by Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room,…

— Samuel Palmer

“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason…

— Tennessee Williams

“The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of…

— Edith Wharton

“A monkey is always a monkey," says the proverb, "even if he has birth-tokens of gold." Although you have a book in your hand…

— Lucian of Samosata

“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of papers and ink and glue - you sell him a…

— Christopher Morlay

“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with the fingers…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.”

— Victor J. Banis

“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity…

— George Orwell

“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…

— Paul Collins

“Don't men read books and take from them what is already in their own hearts?”

— Traci L. Slatton

“White Fang was glad to acknowledge his lordship, but it was lordship based upon superior intelligence and brute strength...There were deeps in his nature…

— Jack London

“Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the book-store?”

— Henry Ward Beecher