Quotes
Quotes about Books
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyedâ and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divineâbut divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wineâ everybody drinks water.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
