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Famous Quotes

  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
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows - Henry Ward Beecher
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul - Thomas Carlyle
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever - Martin Farquhar Tupper
An honest book's the noblest work of Man - Henry David Thoreau
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one - Augustine Birrell
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it - Anthony Burgess
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit - Charles Caleb Colton
Choose an author as you choose a friend - Wentworth Dillon
Do you want to get at new ideas? Read old books. Do you want to find old ideas? Read new ones - Edward Bulwer
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't buy the books - A.S. Byatt
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power - Michael Foot
There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air - Richard Marek
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors - Joseph Addison
The great gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination - Elizabeth Hardwick
What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure - Horace
Reading is not a duty, and if it is not a pleasure it is a waste of time - Holbrook Jackson
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare - Yoshida Kenko
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books - Katherine Mansfield
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere - Hazel Rochman
Book love: It will make your hours pleasant as long as you live - Anthony Trollope
A real book is not one that's read, but one that reads us - W.H. Auden
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries - Rene Descartes
Some books leave us free and some books make us free - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have that time when your brain has nothing constructive to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off - Kaye Gibbons
Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting - Harry Golden
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book - Christopher Morley
You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books - Carter Burden
I wish to have one copy of every book in the world - Sir Thomas Phillipps
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon, and by moonlight - Robertson Davies
The time to read is now, not hereafter. We must make time or miss our joy - Holbrook Jackson
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library - Jorge Luis Borges
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings - Helen Hayes
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading - Holbrook Jackson
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
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children - Carl Sagan
To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting - Edmund Burke
Reading does not make a man wise; it only makes him learned - W Somerset Maugham
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read - Abraham Lincoln
Everything in the world exists in order that it may end up in a book - Randall Short