They borrow books they will not buy, They have no ethics or religions; I wish some kind of Burbankian guy, Could cross my books with homing pigeons.
Books Quotes
After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of a book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.
Duke Huan of Ch’i was reading a book at the upper end of the hall; the wheelwright was making a wheel at the lower end. Putting aside his mallet and chisel, he called to the Duke and asked him what book he was reading. ‘One that records the words of the Sages,’ answered the Duke. […]
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder.
He was inspired, and yet he wants books! He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wants books! He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He had a wider experience than most men do, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had […]
It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too… There was some books too, piled up perfectly exact, on each corner of the table. One was a big family Bible, full of pictures. One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family it didn’t say why. I read considerable in […]
