Quotation About Books

People die, but books never die.


Beware of the man of one book. ~ Thomas Aquinas


There is no friend as loyal as a book. ~ Ernest Hemingway


Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ~ Joseph Addison


A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~ Chinese proverb


Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. ~ Robert Chambers


A good title is the title of a successful book. ~ Raymond Chandler


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


A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Marcus T. Cicero


Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. ~ Thomas Kempis


The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ~ Christopher Dawson


Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. ~ Jim Bishop


The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ~ Allan Bloom


A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin


Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet


A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. ~ Henry Ward Beecher


Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. ~ John Harington