Quotes on Book

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the most fertile genius to say only what is new, would be to contract his volumes to a few pages. Yet, surely, there ought to be some bounds to repetition; libraries ought no more to be heaped for ever with the same thoughts differently expressed, than with the same books differently decorated.

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.