Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Books Quotes
The two biggest sellers in any book store are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.
But your own books belong to you; you treat them with the affectionate intimacy that annihilates formality. Books are for use, not for show; you should own no book that you are afraid to mark up, or afraid to place on the table, wide open and face down. A good reason for marking favorite passages […]
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
I discovered its worth (super-slow reading) years ago, in the infamous Changi prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore. I was 19, an artillery sergeant, when the city fell to the Japanese on February 15, 1942. Waiting with other Australian POWs to be marched off, I tried to decide what I should take in the single pack permitted. […]
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
It may be said that though there is some good paper made now, it is never used except for very expensive books, although it would not materially increase the cost in all but the very cheapest. The paper that is used for ordinary books is exceedingly bad even in this country, but is beaten in […]
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
