Books Quotes

The day of the Bible is passed. Books have taken its place.

We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water.

I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.

When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. (2 Timothy 4:13)

Once you put it down, you simply can’t pick it up. (Of a much praised book by Henry James)

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”)

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.