Quotes
Quotes about Books
We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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.
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges.
Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skilled to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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.
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
