Adler Mortimer J.

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

Auden W. H. 1907-1973

The Dyer's Hand „Reading"

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays

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

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays „Of Counsel"

Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Resuscitatio

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Barnes Julian 1946-

Flaubert's Parrot

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this.
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where  things aren't ... Books make sense of life. The only problem
is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.

Bulwer-Lytton Edward 1803-1873

Laws die, books never.

Bulwer-Lytton Edward 1803-1873

Master books, but do not let them master you.
Read to live, not live to read.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Carlyle Thomas 1795-1881

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

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

My Early Life

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

Cornford Francis . 1874-1943

Microcosmographia Academica

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the  Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881

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

Flaubert Gustave 1821-1880

(letter to Ernest Feydeau)

Books are made not like children but like pyramids... and are just as useless!... Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois
climb up on them.

France Anatole 1844-1924

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

Frost Robert 1874-1963

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Gay John 1685-1732

Fables (introduction)

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

Harington Sir John 1561-1612

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

Heine Heinrich 1797-1856

Almansor

Wherever books will be burned, men also, in  the end, are burned.

Helvetius Claude-Adrien 1715-1771

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading  of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools
or slaves.

Hershey Lenore

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas.
They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.