Books Quotes

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

Nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does. Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is. (“Gone with the Wind”)

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.

But what is the use of brevity, tell me, when there is a whole book of it?

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.

A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.

If you only ever read one book in your life, I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

Beware the person of one book.

You say you need another bookcase? Well, of course you need another bookcase. If you didn’t need another bookcase, you wouldn’t be worth knowing.

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory.