Book Perspective

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Every man in his own library. - Ravi Zacharias

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

We can close the books on infectious diseases. - William H Stewart

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. - African Proverb

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

Carpenter: 1. A guy who nails down his agreement; 2. A shelf made man. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - Lily Tomlin

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them. - William Hazlitt

Books are no different from goats - they enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. - Kate Bernheimer

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. - John C Maxwell

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? - Bette Midler

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey