Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. — Henry David Thoreau
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for… — Harry Allen Overstreet
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters. — Ross Macdonald
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter
Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books. — Unknown Author
Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep. — Edwin Paxton Hood
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. — Thomas Lansing Masson
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. — Gilles Menage
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy… — Alexander McCall Smith
There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his… — Kirpal Singh
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who… — Simon Sebag-Montefiore
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it… — Wally Lamb
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home. — Lev Grossman
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need… — Lev Grossman
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used. — L. Ron Hubbard
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly… — Fred Saberhagen
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. — Fred Saberhagen
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and… — Fred Saberhagen
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad. — David Karp

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