Book Quotes

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A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the… — Henry David Thoreau
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no… — Theodore Dreiser
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. — John Quincy Adams
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all… — Noah Webster
If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours. — Paris Hilton
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars. — George Carlin
Books without the knowledge of life are useless. — Samuel Johnson
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to… — Elbert Hubbard
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately… — Barack Obama
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and… — Thomas Jefferson
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of… — Thomas Jefferson
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.… — Mark Twain
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine… — Thomas a Kempis

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