On Matters of Most Grave Concern - "Books"
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
-A. Bronson Alcott
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
-Francis Bacon
When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
"His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
-Hilaire Belloc
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
-Stephen Vincent Benét
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-Joseph Brodsky
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
-John LeCarre
A book is the only immortality.
-Rufus Choate
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Marcus Tulius Cicero
Never judge a book by its movie.
-J.W. Eagan
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
-Tryon Edwards
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The proper study of mankind is books.
-Aldous Huxley
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
-John Milton
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
The best books...are those that tell you what you know already.
-George Orwell
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-Samuel Paterson
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
-William Lyon Phelps
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
-Henry David Thoreau
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-Mark Twain
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
-Carl Van Doren
-A. Bronson Alcott
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
-Francis Bacon
When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
"His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
-Hilaire Belloc
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
-Stephen Vincent Benét
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-Joseph Brodsky
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
-John LeCarre
A book is the only immortality.
-Rufus Choate
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Marcus Tulius Cicero
Never judge a book by its movie.
-J.W. Eagan
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
-Tryon Edwards
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The proper study of mankind is books.
-Aldous Huxley
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
-John Milton
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
The best books...are those that tell you what you know already.
-George Orwell
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-Samuel Paterson
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
-William Lyon Phelps
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
-Henry David Thoreau
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-Mark Twain
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
-Carl Van Doren