It’s summer! I only get three short months to goof off! I’m not going to waste these precious days reading books! (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
Books Quotes
Make your books your companions.
“Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read. (often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain)
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.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
