Motivational Quotes

Books

I read part of it all the way through.

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Books

1.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Lenore Hershey

2.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

3.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

4.

I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

5.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

6.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

7.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

8.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

9.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

10.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

11.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

12.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks

13.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

14.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

15.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

16.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

18.

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

19.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

20.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

21.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

22.

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

Ralph Novak

23.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

24.

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

25.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton

26.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

27.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

28.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

29.

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

Sir Richard Steele

30.

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

Groucho Marx

31.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

32.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

33.

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

34.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

William Goldman

35.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

36.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

37.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Evan Esar

38.

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

39.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

40.

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

41.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

John Witherspoon

42.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

43.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

44.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

45.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

47.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

48.

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Randy Pausch

49.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

50.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair