Quotes and sayings about tag  #books

Quotes and sayings about tag  books

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Abraham Lincoln

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

G.K. Chesterton

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

G.K. Chesterton

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Adolf Hitler

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Agatha Christie

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

Al Pacino

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Alan Bennett

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Gary D. Schmidt

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.

Gloria Mallette

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

Amy Plum

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Harold S. Kushner

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.

Helen Exley

…only then did I wake out of the book.

John McGahern

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

Andrew Smith

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Andrew Carnegie

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Anna Quindlen

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Anne Brontë

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

Kellie Elmore

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

L.M. Montgomery

Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Arthur Conan Doyle

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Benjamin Franklin

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Louis L'Amour

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P.J. O'Rourke

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