Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. — Walter Benjamin
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks… — P.J. O'Rourke
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. — Karl Marx
I want my books sold on airport bookstalls. — Stephen Hawking
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms… — Unknown Author
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library… — Elwyn Brooks White
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams
With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America… — Aberjhani
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage… — James Freeman Clarke
Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words… — Mother Teresa
Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the other side are… — Jeff Cooper
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what… — William James
The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. — Jackie Collins
In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the… — Charles Dickens
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters… — David Jeremiah
Study nature not books — Louis Agassiz
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new… — Ramana Maharshi
The Hindu faith and the information for its sacred books, the Vedas, were taken to the Indian subcontinent by the Aryans from the Caucasus Mountains,… — David Icke
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink… — Ludwig von Mises
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least. — Mark Twain
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend… — Edward Abbey

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