Books Quotes

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Friends, Thoughts, Find

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, Book

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

Life, Good, Friends

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

Strange, Popular, Written

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

Health, May, Die

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

Thoughts, Show, Original

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

Life, Good, Everything

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden

Friendship, Good, Art

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

Good, Cannot, Read

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain

Great, Wine, Water

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

Women, Men, Lonely

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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther

Alone, Lord, Promise

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

Good, Read, Uneducated

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 cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

Show, Shame, Calls

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi

Writing, Study, Lives

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

Book, Moral, Written

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Eyes, Belong

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age, Rather, Write

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Chanakya

Stupid, Person, Mirror

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

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

Book, Attention, Rule

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury

Reading, Worse, Burning

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

Best, Knowledge, True

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, May, Chance

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau

Service, Often, Ourselves

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau

Wealth, Nations, Fit

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw

Read, Nobody, Except

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David Thoreau

Manner, Treated, Grandeur

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