Book Quotes

Book Quote of the day

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

It’s getting a little chilly in here! Why don’t we sit by the fireplace and I’ll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

Don't judge a book by its cover

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

With a book, he was regardless of time.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

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

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

The more you read the more places you will go, the more places you go the more things you will learn.

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibly stupid

Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

Whenever you feel like criticzing any one, " he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

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.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

We are the things we don't remember, the blank spaces, the forgotten words.

There is no new knowledge, it already exists in the universe.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

This just means so much to me!I'd like to thank all the little people I crushed on my way to the top

It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.