There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Books Quotes
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
That book is good in vain which the reader throws away.
“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.” “But what if I don’t like it?” Ted shrugged. “Then don’t finish it. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump […]
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
People seldom read a book, which is given to them. The way to spread a word is to sell it at a low price.
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead – from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, and open their hearts to us […]
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which ‘permits, invites, or compels’ good reading.
Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and puts down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
