Book Quotes, Sayings about Books & Reading

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all - Abraham Lincoln.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul - Aldous Huxley.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports - Bern Williams.

Books are embalmed minds - Bovee.

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by - Bulstrode Whitlock.

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 W. Eliot.

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

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you - Daniel J. Boorstein.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time - E.P. Whipple.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested - Francis Bacon.

Reading means borrowing - George Christoph Lichtenberg.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things - George Robert Gissing.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity - George Steiner.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read - G.K. Chesterton.

Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare - Harriet Martineau.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it - James Bryce.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind - James Russell Lowell.

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list - John Aikin.

A book worth reading is worth buying - John Ruskin.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time - John Ruskin.

Never judge a book by its movie - J.W. Eagan.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them - Mark Twain.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life - Mark Twain.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life - Mortimer Adler.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it - P.J. O’Rourke.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires - Plato.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A good book has no ending - R.D. Cumming.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter - Thomas Helm.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own - William Hazlitt.

A good book should leave you.. slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it - William Styron.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay - William Styron.

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