Books quotes

Page 1

◆ So many books, so little time.

- Frank Zappa100

◆ I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section.

- 100

◆ Doing a book signing tomorrow at Barnes & Noble. Bring your own book...I haven't written one yet.

- Daniel Tosh99

◆ All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ If a person desires to understand clearly the sacred books and scriptural texts of India, to imbibe their message, he must learn the Sanskrit language; he cannot avoid that responsibility and that duty.

- Sri Sathya Sai Baba99

◆ Life is too short for reading inferior books.

- 99

◆ Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

- Clarence Day99

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

- Chanakya99

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

- Martin Luther99

◆ The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

- William Lyon Phelps99

◆ A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books.

- Chinese Proverbs99

◆ I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay99

◆ A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

- Ernest Hemingway99