Monday 8 May 2017

Books Sayings and Quotes



If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami





Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.    

Maya Angelou





The book you don't read won't help.    

Jim Rohn





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

Joseph Brodsky





Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

J.K. Rowling





Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles William Eliot





Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.    

Stephen King





Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.    

Christopher Paolini





Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

Charlaine Harris





If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde





A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Garrison Keillor





Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King





Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.    

Barbara W. Tuchman





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.

Joseph Addison





Do not read good books--life is too short for that--read only the best.    

Ernest Dimnet





Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Mark Twain





No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally ? and often far more ? worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

C.S. Lewis





Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.    

Anna Quindlen





A good book has no ending.

R.D. Cumming





The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are vol    

Clarence Shepard Day





Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking 'that's so insightful! that changes everything,' but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start se    

Aaron Swartz





I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

J. K. Rowling





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

Francis Bacon





A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

B. A. Billingsly





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

Marcus Tullius Cicero





Books, dear books, Have been, and are my comforts; morn and night, Adversity, prosperity, at home, Abroad, health, sickness?good or ill report, The same firm friends; the same refreshment rich, And source of consolation.    

Dr. Dodd.





Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that whic    

Horace Mann





Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart.

Channing





Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.    

George William Curtis





Book: A garden carried in a pocket.    

Arabian Proverb




The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Mark Twain





To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer





Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx





There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

H. L. Mencken





Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.    

James Russell Lowell






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





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

Descartes





A man is known by the books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson





A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.    

Franz Kafka





A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

Martin Tupper





Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.    

E.P. Whipple





Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.    

Robert Louis Stevenson






If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

John Ruskin





Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.    

William Feather





Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Abraham Lincoln





A book can talk to your mind. A book can go around the world with you. A book can make you a smarter individual.    

Dr T.P.Chia





Good books enlighten the mind, bad books corrupt the soul.    

Dr T.P.Chia





Books are more than educational - they are the quiet friends, loyal companions, and untiring teachers.

Dr T.P.Chia





I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson





There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Walt Disney

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