Quotes on Book

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and good citizens to give these children, who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids, then I'll feel my life has been worth it.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.