Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957), O Magazine, December 2003
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan
Oh for a book and a shady nook…
John Wilson (1785 – 1854)
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norias, Hands Full of Living, 1931
Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
-Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, August 7, 1991
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Paxton Hood
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Paul Sweeney
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
Andrew Ross
“TV.” If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. Open your child’s imagination. Open a book.
Author Unknown
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
The function of a good book is to stand like a signpost guiding the reader to the Truth and the Life.
Tozer
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
Jan Morris
Books do furnish a room.
Anthony Powell
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.
Clifton Fadiman
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, “Book Buying”
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
No furniture so charming as books.
Rev. Sydney Smith
Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.
François Mauriac
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus
A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
Samuel Johnson
The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley
God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
W.E. Channing
A blessed companion is a book – a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend… a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own.
Douglas Jerrold
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
Henry Ward Beecher
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.
Strickland Gillilan
Never judge a book by its movie.
J.W. Eagan
Reading – the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
William Styron
O for a Booke and a shdie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out;
With the grene leaves whisp’ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about.
Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde;
For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.
John Wilson
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint…. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I once read a quote that I’m trying to remember. It tells of the importance of writing Christian biographies so we remember the way God has worked through his people in the past. Do you know the exact quote? I wish I could remember which biography I read it in, too!