Book Quotes and Sayings - Page 5
Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
- Evan Esar
A room without a book is like a body without a soul.
- Cicero
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
The closest thing we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
- John Witherspoon
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
- Robert Byrne
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis Borges
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
- Jerry Seinfeld
A book worth reading is worth buying.
- John Ruskin
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
- Anne Tyler
You don’t write a book to show off.
- Tony Orlando
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience : this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
A book of quotations – can never be complete.
- Robert M. Hamilton
Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.
The public library is the most dangerous place in the town.
- John Ciardi
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon
So many books, so little time.
- Frank Zappa
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.