Famous Book Saying

Famous Book Saying

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

Beware of the person of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Richard Bach 1936-, American Author

Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
E.S. Barrett

He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
Barrow

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''
Hilaire Belloc 1870-1953, British Author

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Stephen Vincent Benet 1989-1943, American Novelist, Poet

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Walter Benjamin 1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom 1930-1992, American Educator, Author

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury 1920-, American Science Fiction Writer

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.
Ashleigh Brilliant 1933

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky 1940-, Russian-born American Poet, Critic

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Rupert Brooke 1887-1915, British Poet

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookner 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian

Come,come,my conservative friend,wipe the dew off your spectacles,and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Like any other kind of love, friendship can be lost within our lives due to neglect or anger or, sometimes, just because of the circumstances. However it is lost, we often lose a part of ourselves that can never quite be recovered.
Unknown

“True friends are like diamonds; precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves; found everywhere.”Unknown

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.Mary Worley Montagu

Everyone is putting a brave face, but things are not what they seem and there is the normal backstabbing.Peter Schmidt