Book Quotes: Literary Pearls of Wisdom (Page 6)

"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man will turn over half a library to make one book"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out"

Doug Coupland, Author

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time"

John Ruskin, Writer

"A book worth reading is worth buying"

John Ruskin, Writer

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

John Ruskin, Writer

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

John Ruskin, Writer

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

John Ruskin, Writer

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness"

Helen Keller, Author

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

Martin Luther, Professor

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Rereading, we find a new book"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever"

George Orwell, Author

"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"

R. L. Stine, Writer

"Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone"

Horace, Poet

"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement"

Horace, Poet

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

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

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

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