Book Quotes
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- A book is a garden carried in the pocket.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- A book is a gift you can open again and again.~ Garrison Keillor
- A book is the only immortality.~ Rufus Choate
- A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.~ Mark Twain
- A good book praises itself.~ German Proverb
- A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.~ Irish Proverb
- A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.~ William Styron
- A man is happy when he has books, but happier still when he does not need them.~ Chinese Proverb
- A pack of cards is the devil’s prayer book.~ German Proverb
- A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.~ Chinese Proverb
- A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. ~ Caroline Gordon
- A wise man without a book is like a workman with no tools.~ Moroccan Proverb
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.~ Mark Twain
- Better than the ignorant are those who read books; better still are those who retain what they read; even better are those who understand it; the best of all are those who go to work.~ Indian Proverb
- Beware of a man of one book.~ English Proverb
- Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. ~ Jan Morris
- Books and friends should be few but good.~ Traditional Proverb
- Books are humanity in print.~ Barbara W. Tuchman
- Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. ~ Edwin P. Whipple
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.~ Henry David Thoreau
- Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.~ Elizabeth Hardwick
- Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.~ William Feather
- Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all ~ Abraham Lincoln
- Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.~ Oprah Winfrey
- Borrowed wives, like borrowed books, are seldom returned.~ American Proverb
- Don’t judge a book by its cover.~ English Proverb
- Every age has its book.~ Arabian Proverb
- Every book must be chewed to get out its juice.~ Chinese Proverb
- If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it’s great, it should be read at least three times.~ Anatole Broyard
- It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it entirely.~ Chinese Proverb
- Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.~ Japanese Proverb
- Master books, but do not let them master you. – Read to live, not live to read.~ Owen Meredith
- My Book and Heart Must never part.~ Books quotes
- Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.~ Polish Proverb
- Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.~ Japanese Proverb
- Only your friends steal your books. ~ Voltaire
- People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs.~ Chinese Proverb
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
- Teachers die, but books live on.~ Dutch Proverb
- The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.~ John Greenleaf Whittier
- The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.~ Oscar Wilde
- The book you don’t read can’t help. ~ Jim Rohn
- The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.~ American Proverb
- There’s no thief like a bad book.~ Italian Proverb
- These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.~ Gilbert Highet
- The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart.~ African Proverb
- The world is the book of women.~ French Proverb
- Walls are the notebooks of fools.~ Arabian Proverb
- We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.~ B. F. Skinner
- Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.~ Heinrich Heine
- Whoever writes a book, should be ready to accept criticism.~ Iraqi Proverb
- Years know more than books.~ American Proverb
- You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.~ Paul Sweeney
- If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison
- The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.~ Theodore Parker
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