Books Quotes
There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, It was all right but I liked the book better.
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
Beware the man of one book.
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all -- except the censor. We must know all.
. . . there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker.
I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book.
He utters empty words, he utters sound without mind.
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a the resulting effect is physical as well.
With a knowledge of the name comes a distincter recognition and knowledge of the thing.
But from sharp words and wits men pluck no fruit; And gathering thorns they shake the tree For words divide and rend, But silence is most noble till the end.
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.
When words are scarce they're seldom spent in vain.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not them- selves understand.
The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath.