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| It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. (Sir Winston Churchill My Early Life 1930) |
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| All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. (Carl Sagan) |
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| Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. (Gore Vidal) |
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| If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. (Nora Ephron) |
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| He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful. (Dame Rose Macaulay Crewe Train 1926) |
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| These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. (Gilbert Highet) |
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| Beware the man of one book. (Saint Thomas Aquinas) |
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| I live for books. (Thomas Jefferson) |
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| Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. (Emerson) |
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| That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. (Amos Bronson Alcott Table Talk) |
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| I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. (John Burrough) |
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| The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. (James Bryce) |
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| And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. (Shakespeare) |
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| Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. (The Buddha) |
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| ...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. (John Milton) |
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| All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look. (Robert Fulghum) |
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| The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. (Isaac Bashevis Singer New York Times Magazine Nov. 26 1978) |
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| That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. (A. Bronson Alcott) |
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| Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Henry Ward Beecher) |
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| A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. (Rupert Brooke) |
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| Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books (Thomas Carlyle) |
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| It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. (William E. Channing) |
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| There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) |
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| Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. (Sir John Denham) |
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