When
I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left,
I buy food and clothes.
- Desiderius Erasmus
I
intrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and
the weather.
- Leigh Hunt
Books
are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
- George
William Curtis
The
best effect of any book is that it excites the reader
to self activity. -
- Thomas Carlyle
The
proper study of mankind is books.
- Aldous Huxley
Book:
A garden carried in a pocket.
- Arabian Proverb
The
things I want to know are in books; my best friend is
the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
A
home without books is like a room without windows.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A
great book that comes from a great thinker,-- it is
a ship of thought, deep- freighted with truth and with
beauty.
- Theodore Parker
I
keep to old books, for they teach me something; from
the new I learn very little
- Voltaire
Everyone
who know how to read has it in their power to magnify
themselves, multiple the ways in which they exist, to
make their life full, significant, and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley
The
man who does not read good books has no advantage over
the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain
A
good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit,
embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond
life.
- John Milton
Books
that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your
hand, are the most useful after all.
- Samuel Johnson
The
most technologically efficient machine that man has
ever invented is the book.
- Northrup Frye
Books
that are books are all that you want, and there are
but a half dozen in any thousand.
- Henry
David Thoreau
All
the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion,
unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
- Richard De Bury
'Tis
the good reader that makes the good book.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People
say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Beware
the man of one book.
- Latin Proverb
There
is no past, as long as books shall live.
Books make the past our heritage and our home.
- Edward Bulwer Lytton
If
minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for
books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences,
confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing
the blueprints of it futures.
- Harry A. Overstreet
Books
to the ceiling
Books to the sky.
My pile of books
Are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard
By the time I read them.
- Arnold Lobel |
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Just
the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the
end of a long day makes that day happier.
-
Kathleen Norris
Some
books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and
some few to be chewed and digested.
- Sir Francis Bacon
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