Quotes
Quotes about Books
Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from human haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the mornin'âand the moon at night.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning's dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books! At last, because the time was ripe, I chanced upon the poets.
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
