Quotes About Books

Katrai gr?matai ir dv?sele - t? cilv?ka dv?sele, kurš gr?matu sarakst?jis, un to cilv?ku dv?seles, kuri gr?matu las?juši un kop? ar to sap?ojuši.

no book could ever be left in the condition you found it in because it was changed every time it was read by someone.

Martin couldn't imagine a world where there was no time to read.

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is. Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.