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.