We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.
Books Quotes
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water.
I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.
When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. (2 Timothy 4:13)
Once you put it down, you simply can’t pick it up. (Of a much praised book by Henry James)
It’s summer! I only get three short months to goof off! I’m not going to waste these precious days reading books! (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
Make your books your companions.
“Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read. (often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain)
They borrow books they will not buy, They have no ethics or religions; I wish some kind of Burbankian guy, Could cross my books with homing pigeons.
After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of a book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.
