Book quotes!

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Various book quotes from famouse people.

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Book Quotes!

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. James McCosh

Outside of a dog a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese Proverb

Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing.

Cicero

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Mortimer J. Adler.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Tupper

What’s a book?Everything or nothing.The eye that sees it all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. Charles Kingsley

A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky.

-The Koran

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Richard Steele

A Library is a hospital for the mind. anonymous

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney

The more that you read, The more things you will know. The more that you learn, The more places you’ll go.

Dr. Seuss

T’is the good reader that makes the good book. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B.F. Skinner

Fiction is like a spider’s web, Attached ever so lightly perhaps, But still attached to life at all four

corners. Virginia Woolf

Literature is my Utopia. Helen Keller

Reading maketh a full man. Francis Bacon

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. Rita Mae Brown

Words are pieces of the heart.-Confusius

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. Theodore Parker

Libraries have become my candy store. Juliana Kimball

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books. Longfello

Knowledge is knowing...or knowing where to find out. Alvin Toffler

None is poor save him that lacks knowledge. The Talmud

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Learning is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. Chinese proverb

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