Books Quotes

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.

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.

The only two kinds of books that could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

A man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.