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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Franz Kafka

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Voltaire

You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 321.

Many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, Uncertain and unsettled still remains-- Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.

WORDSWORTH: _Personal Talk._

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: _Essay on Poetry_

Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor; Verse may seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.

Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books.

Samuel Paterson

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

BURNS: _Death and Dr. Hornbook._

Some books are lies frae end to end.

E. M. Forster

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Steven Wright

I wrote a few children's books...not on purpose.

Steven Wright

I wrote a few children's books... Not on purpose.

Mortimer Adler

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Jane Hamilton

It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Desiderius Erasmus

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.

Mark Twain

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Alan King

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

Sir John Harington

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Joseph Brodsky

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Irwin Shaw

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A home without books is a body without soul.

Jackie Collins

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Ford Maddox

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Walt Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books

Franois Maurice Mitterrand

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 327.

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Jim	Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

Edward Morgan Forster

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Francois Arouet

In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Charles Jones

You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

Paxton Hood

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.

MOORE: _The Time I've Lost in Wooing._

My only books Were woman's looks,-- And folly 's all they've taught me.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Ray Douglas Bradbury

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Nora Joyce, to her husband James

Why dont you write books people can read

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself

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.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

"Books?" Who reads "books?" ... All I read are QWK paks & Taglines!

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

"Free people write books. Free people read books." - Franklin

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Read much, but not many books.

So many books, so little time.

I live for books.

"C'mon boy, even books have spines!

When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.

Books may well be the only true magic.

Condense soup, not books!

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.

I wrote a few children's books, but not on purpose.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Arkansas: Bubble-gum cards are in the Great Books series.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

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.