Book Quotes

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate. — Alexander Pope
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. — Ronald Reagan
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. — John le Carre
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids. — Cornelia Funke
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were… — Johannes Kepler
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book. — E. W. Howe
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean… — Ravi Zacharias
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. — Cyril Connolly
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have… — Thomas Traherne
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. — Jean Rostand
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. — Christopher Dawson
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation.… — Rajneesh
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it… — Walt Whitman
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman

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