Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of… — Mark Twain
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. — John Milton
The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures. — George Herbert
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip… — Florence King
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family -… — Calvin Trillin
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,… — Alexander Pope
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every… — Donald Knuth
Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until… — Walter Russell
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is… — Henry D. Taylor
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books! — George W. Crane
Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read. — Ernie Harwell
Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of… — Khalil Gibran
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. — L. M. Boyd
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food. — George Crabbe
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the… — Barbara Tuchman
The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books,… — Vernon Howard
Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words. — Therese of Lisieux
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf. — Sam Ewing
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not… — William S. Knudsen
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river… — Louis L'Amour
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms… — George Eliot

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