Book Quotes: Literary Pearls of Wisdom (Page 4)

"Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded"

Fritz Zwicky, Scientist

"Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction"

Norton Juster, Architect

"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"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, Dramatist

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all"

Voltaire, Writer

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil"

Voltaire, Writer

"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own"

Mark Twain, Author

"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read"

Mark Twain, Author

"Every burned book enlightens the world"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part"

David Carradine, Actor

"Books are not men and yet they stay alive"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The proper study of mankind is books"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book"

Victor Hugo, Author

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life"

Victor Hugo, Author

"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, Leader

"A home without books is a body without soul"

Cicero, Philosopher

"A room without books is like a body without a soul"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"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, President

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

"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, Philosopher

"I cannot live without books"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"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, President

"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"We cannot learn men from books"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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