When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Desiderius Erasmus

Quotations About Books

Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Oliver Wendall Holmes

A book without an index is like a compass without a needle.
Anonymous

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and a houseful of books isn't poor.
Sam Levenson

Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.
George Crabbe

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

We find little in books but what we put there.
But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Joseph Joubert

Books are the windows through
which the soul looks out.
Henry Ward Beecher

Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Henry David Thoreau

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey

People will not be better than the books they read.
Bishop Potter

A good book is the precious life-blood
of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured
up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher

"Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.
Mark Twain

You can't tell a book by it's movie.
Louis A Safian

A book may be compared to your neighbor:
if it be good it cannot last too long;
if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Henry Brooke

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