“Well, but look here,” he said, just to keep up his part in the foolish conversation, “what if one of the chimpanzees finally did duplicate a book, right down to the last period, but left that off? Would that count?” – “I suppose not. Probably the chimpanzee would get around to doing the book again, […]
Books Quotes
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes […]
When Elaine Steinbeck went to a Tokyo bookshop and asked whether there were any books by her husband, John Steinbeck, the smiling clerk fished somewhere behind the counter and came up with “The Grapes of Wrath”. “Yes,” the clerk said, “we have his most famous book. It’s called “The Angry Raisins”.
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky. My pile of books Are a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard By the time I read them.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
There are excellent bits here, you’ll find, And bits of a so and so kind. Still more than the latter are bad bits – no matter! A book is of all sorts combined.
