Book Quotes

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom, Honesty, Chapter

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Friend, Read

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis

Long, Enough, Big

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

Best, Friend, Dark

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Good, Deep, Him

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

Read, Praise, Classic

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain

Order, Discover, Reader

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life, Education, Learning

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde

Enjoy, Cannot, Again

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Men, Long

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

America, Become, United

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

Friends, Talk, Here

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Down, Living

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury

Education, Money, End

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn

Thinking, Through, Living

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

Moral, Books, Written

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

Learning, Cannot, Open

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Yourself, Bad

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

Travel, Read, Page

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin

Himself, Wiser, Composes

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

Time, Find, Read

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Others, Whole, Ambition

Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Burned, Enlightens

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Days, Read, Either

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

House, Quotation, Stone

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

Attention, Books, Rule

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Time, Beautiful

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Steven Wright

Writing, Done, Numbers

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Friendship, Marriage

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Else, Everyone, Ambition

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