Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

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
I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. — Dave Barry
A book is the only immortality. — Rufus Choate
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. — Elizabeth Hardwick
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. — Anatole Broyard
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. — George Bernard Shaw
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H. L. Mencken
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H. L. Mencken
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it… — Winston Churchill
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth. — Nick Hornby
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll… — John Grisham
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books. — A. Whitney Brown
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… — Lawrence Clark Powell
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding… — Lewis Grizzard
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… — Henry David Thoreau
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is… — Milton Friedman
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent… — Shimon Peres
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the… — Johannes Kepler
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed… — Samuel Johnson

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