Books Without Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

Books without the knowledge of life are useless. — Samuel Johnson
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. — William Gaddis
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people. — Manuel Rivas
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid
Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy… — Gabriel Zaid
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the… — Samuel Johnson
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them. — Jack L. Chalker
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. — Theodore Roosevelt
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment… — Anne Roiphe
Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other… — Ray Bradbury
Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to… — Milan Kundera
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just… — Alison Bechdel
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading. — Elizabeth von Arnim
When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy… — Watchman Nee
It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It… — Marly Youmans
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to… — William Osler
It's not healthy to swallow books without chewing. — German Proverb

Who Wrote These Books Without Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Books Without Quotes as follows: