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Quotes By subject - Starting with B - Books
There are 73 quotes for the subject Books
Quotations 1 to 20 of 73
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Author: Mark Twain
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Author: Mark Twain
Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Author: Oscar Wilde
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Author: Voltaire
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Author: Albert Einstein
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Author: Mark Twain
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Author: Sir Richard Steele
I cannot live without books.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
Author: Winston Churchill
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Author: Mark Twain
Source:  Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Author: Mark Twain
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Author: Mark Twain
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