Books Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I have owned over a thousand books at one time and that's only half of what I've read.”

— Maryann Flasch

“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out…

— Jonathan Swift

“You never can have too many books.”

— Keith M. Weller

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“You can never have enough books,”

— Christina L. Farley

“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.”

— Hilary Mantel

“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite…

— Ursula K. Le Guina

“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”

— Donald Barthelme

“I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”

— Emil M. Cioran