| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Av allt värdefullt som människan inte fått till skänks av naturen, utan har skapat på egen hand, är böckerna det värdefullaste. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Aven bok som gör sig förtjänt av namnet väntar man sig att den förändrar läsaren. | Ernst Jünger |
| Bara dina vänner stjäl dina böcker. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Bland jordens hotade arter, såsom pandan, blåvalen, ölutköraren, Carsten Jensen och den bengaliska tigern kan man nu också räkna in boken. | Henrik Wivel |
| Boken är tankens barn. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Böcker gör folk både kloka och galna. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Böcker har samma fiender som människan - eld, fukt, djur, tiden och sitt eget innehåll. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Böcker är de lugnaste och mest trofasta vänner, de är de mest lättillgängliga och kloka rådgivarna, och de tålmodigaste lärarna. | Charles W. Eliot (1834-1926) |
| Böcker är en unikt bärbar magi. | Stephen King (1947-) |
| Böcker är inte något man kan läsa sig till. | May Grethe Lerum (1965-) |
| Dagens offentliga personer kan inte längre skriva sina egna tal eller böcker, och det finns belägg för att de inte kan läsa dem heller. | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| De böcker som hjälper dig mest är de som får dig att tänka mest. | Theodore Parker |
| Den bästa boken att läsa är inte den som tänker åt dig, men den som får dig att tänka. Ingen bok i världen kan jämföras med Bibeln i det hänseendet. | Harper Lee (1926-) |
| Den stora nackdelen med nya böcker är att de hindrar oss att läsa de gamla. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| Det finns två huvudtyper av böcker: en mindre, som väcker läsarens medlidande med de skildrade personerna, och en större, som väcker medlidande med författaren. | Nis Petersen (1897-1943) |
| Det finns underliga människor, som köper böcker för att äga dem, inte för att läsa dem. Jag tror de kallas bibliofiler. | Georg Brandes (1842-1927) |
| Det här är den sjätte bok jag har skrivit, vilket inte är så dåligt för en som bara har läst två. | George F. Burns (1896-1996) |
| Det är bra att kunna skriva böcker, men kan du vifta på öronen? | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| Det är ett av livets gissel att man måste läsa tusentals böcker för att upptäcka att man inte hade behövt läsa dem. | Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) |
| Det är stor skillnad på en vaken man som vill läsa en bok och en trött man som vill ha en bok att läsa. | Anton Tsjekov (1860-1904) |
| En bok bör vara som en yxa för isen inom oss. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| En bok som inte är värd att läsas minst två gånger är inte värd att läsas en gång. | Karl Julius Weber (1767-1832) |
| En bok som inte öppnas är bara en tegelsten av papper. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| En bok är ett uppskjutet självmord. | Emile M. Cioran (1911-) |
| En bok är som en trädgård du bär i fickan. | Arabisk Ordtak |
| En boks värde hänger framför allt samman med vissa egenskaper. Böcker i skinnband kan t.ex. vara till ovärderlig nytta när man slipar rakknivar. Tunna häften däremot passar utmärkt när man behöver palla under ett ben på ett vingligt bord. Ett lexikon är förträffligt för att försätta en inbrottstjuv ur stridbart skick och en atlas kan användas som ersättning för krossade fönsterrutor. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| En god bok har för mig alltid varit en vän, en rådgivare, en vältalande och lugnande tröstare. | George Sand (1804-1876) |
| En klok man läser både i boken och i livet. | Lin Yutang (1895-1976) |
| Ett hus utan böcker är som en kropp utan själ | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Ett liv utan böcker är som en barndom utan äventyr, en ungdom utan kärlek, en ålderdom utan fred. | Carl Petter Frohling |
| Folk analyserar så mycket att de inte kommer in till själva kärnan av vad de läser, de står vid dörren och fumlar med sina tusen nyklar utan att vara säkra på om dörren verkligen är låst. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| För läsaren är en god bok den billigaste hobbyn, för författaren - den dyraste. | Gabriel Laub |
| Goda böcker vänder ansiktet mot världen. Låt dem inte vända dig ryggen. | Ukjent |
| Gå med dig gamla frack och köp en ny bok! | Austin Phels |
| Har du två bröd, sälj det ena och köp en bok. | Ukjent |
| Hellre barfota än boklös. | Islandsk Ordtak |
| I livets bok finns inte facit längst bak. | Charlie Brown |
| Jag lever för böcker. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Jag skriver böckerna så som jag själv skulle ha tyckt om att läsa dem, ganska enkelt. | Margit Sandemo (1924-) |
| Jag somnade av att läsa en långrandig bok och drömde att jag fortsatte läsa, så jag vaknade av ren uttråkning. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Jag tror att vi borde läsa sådana böcker som sårar och genomborrar oss ... En bok borde vara ishackan till den frusna sjön inom oss. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| Jag vet bara ett tidsfördriv som aldrig tröttar, och det är läsning | Roald Amundsen (1872-) |
| Ju fler tankestreck det finns i en bok desto färre tankar. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Man ska inte läsa för att sluka, men för att se, vad man kan bruka. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Mina böcker har alltid tid för mig, de är aldrig upptagna. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Mångfalden av böcker är av ondo. Det finns inget rättesnöre eller gräns för skrivfebern; alla vill bli författare, några av fåfänga, för att skaffa sig berömmelse och skapa sig ett namn, andra för mammons och förtjänstens skull. | Martin Luther (1483-1546) |
| Några böcker blir oförtjänt glömda men ingen blir oförtjänt ihågkommen. | W. H. Auden (1907-1973) |
| När böcker föds i dag är det barnmorskan som skriker. | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
| När en bok lyfter ditt sinne och inspirerar dig med nobla och modfyllda känslor, sök inte efter något annat mått att döma händelsen med; den är god och gjord av en god hantverkare. | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| När en bok och ett huvud stöter samman med ett ihåligt ljud, är det inte nödvändigtvis boken som är ihålig. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Så länge vi har böcker hänger vi oss inte. | Mariede Sévigné (1626-1696) |
| Varhelst man bränner böcker, bränner man till sist också människor. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Vem vet- kanske att Shakespeare hade haft färre tankar om han hade läst fler böcker? | Edward Young (1683-1765) |
| Vissa böcker verkar vara skrivna inte för att man ska lära sig något av dem utan för att man ska få veta att författaren har kunskap om något. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Den bog, som ethvert menneske har indeni, bør almindeligvis blive der. | A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1990) |
| En klassiker er en forfatter, der endnu bliver citeret, men ikke længere læst. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| Lån aldrig bøger ud - ingen afleverer dem igen. De eneste bøger, jeg har i mit bibliotek, er dem, jeg har lånt. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Der findes så mange, som skriver, og så få som læser! | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Det er ikke så meget det, du siger i en bog, som giver den værdi, men alt det, du ville sige, som giver den hemmelig næring. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Bøger møblerer ikke et værelse. | Anthony Powell (1905-2000) |
| En dag håber jeg at skrive en bog, hvor indtægterne kan betale for de kopier, jeg giver væk. | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| En vidunderlig ting ved en bog i modsætning til en computerskærm er, at du kan tage den med i seng. | Daniel Boorstein |
| Når jeg har lidt penge, køber jeg en bog. Og hvis der er nogen til overs, køber jeg mad. | Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) |
| Mennesker forstår ikke bøger, før de har prøvet en del af livet. Fordommen imod bøger er opstået ved, at man så, hvor stupide de mennesker var, som kun læste bøger. | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| At du var upopulær i gymnasiet er ikke tilstrækkelig grund til at udgive en bog. | Fran Lebowitz (1950-) |
| Bøger skal følge videnskaben og ikke videnskaben bøger | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Læs ikke for at modsige og gendrive, ikke for at tro eller tage for givet.. Men for at veje og overveje | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Nogle bøger skal smages, andre sluges, og andre igen skal tygges og fordøjes | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| En bog bør være hakken til vores indre frosne sø. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| Jeg tror, at vi burde læse den slags bøger, som sårer og gennemborer os. En bog bør være hakken til vores indre frosne sø. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| Jeg forstår ikke, at en person vil bruge et år eller to på at skrive en roman, når han kan købe en for en tier. | Fred Allen (1894-1956) |
| Bøger er vores bedste venner, selv når de vender os ryggen. | Georg Brandes (1842-1927) |
| Det er, når alt kommer til alt, langt mindre vigtigt, hvad man læser, end at man læser det læste godt. | Georg Brandes (1842-1927) |
| En bog er et spejl: hvis et æsel kigger i det, kan du ikke forvente, at en apostel kiger tilbage. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| Hvis en mand skriver en bog, lad ham skrive alene det, han ved. Jeg har nok at gøre med at gætte mine egne | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Der findes værre forbrydelser end brænding af bøger. En af dem er ikke at læse dem. | Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) |
| Alt kommer til den, der venter, undtagen en udlånt bog. | Frank McKinney Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| En klassiker er noget, som alle ønsker at have læst, og ingen ønsker at læse | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Mine bøger er vand, bøgerne af de store genier er vin -- alle drikker vand | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Vær forsigtig med at læse lægebøger - du kunne dø af en trykfejl | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Den dummeste bog er som en læk båd på et hav af visdom; lidt af visdommen siver altid ind. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Blind er bogløs mand. | Ordsprog, danske |
| Boghylden er den stige, hvorpå du bliver din overmands lige. | Ordsprog, danske |
| Bøger gør folk både vise og gale. | Ordsprog, norske |
| Ingen bogforlægger bør nogensinde udtrykke nogen værdiopfattelse af det, han udgiver. Det er en sag for den litterære kritik at bedømme. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Ingen bog er skrevet for enhver mentalitet. Når det er fattet, kan debatten blive ulejligheden værd | Palle Lauring (1909-) |
| Det er den gode læser, som gør den gode bog. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Læs aldring en bog, som ikke er et år gammel. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Du behøver ikke brænde bøger for at ødelægge en kultur. Bare få mennesker til at holde op med at læse dem. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| Der er ingen grund til at skrive en bog, hvis man ikke er indstillet på at springe ud fra en klippe med bind for øjnene. | Suzanne Brøgger |
| Indtil da havde jeg tænkt, at hver bog talte om menneskelige og guddommelige ting, som findes udenfor bøgerne. Nu stod det klart for mig , at bøger ofte taler om bøger, som om de talte med hinanden. | Umberto Eco (1932-) |
| Jeg er ikke bange for, at bogen vil være kontroversiel, jeg er bange for, at den ikke vil være kontroversiel. | Flannery O'Connor |
| I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. | Fred Allen (1894-1956) |
| I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal, all for the gain of a book. | A. S. W. Rosenbach (1876-) |
| Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to | Alain de Botton (1969-) |
| Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. | Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906-1963) |
| There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. | Al Capp (1909-1979) |
| Don't judge a book by its cover | African-American Proverb |
| If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. | Anatole Broyard |
| The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed | Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) |
| The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history | Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-) |
| We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. | B. F. Skinner (1904-1990) |
| Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. | Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) |
| Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time. | Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) |
| Books are humanity in print. | Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) |
| Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness | Bartholini |
| Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. | Bertie C. Forbes |
| I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea. | C. S. Forester (1899-) |
| Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept | Carl Becker |
| A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way | Caroline Gordon (1895-) |
| You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read. | Charles Jones (1957-) |
| 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 (1834-1926) |
| When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before | Cliff Fadiman |
| When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. | Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) |
| People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge | Donna Pomona |
| The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. | E. M. Forster (1879-1970) |
| We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. | Edith Lovejoy Pierce |
| No two persons ever read the same book. | Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) |
| Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time | Edwin Whipple |
| Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| 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 (1885-1972) |
| When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. | Flannery O'Connor |
| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles beyond Hell, where the Devil could not get for stinging nettles | Francis Douce |
| The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned, And all the errata will appear at the end | Francis Quarles (1592-1644) |
| A book is a gift you can open again and again. | Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
| Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. | Garson Kanin (1912-1999) |
| Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books. | Gene Shalit (1936-) |
| A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. | Gilbert Highet (1906-1978) |
| I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. | Gloria Swanson (1899-1983) |
| Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. | Gunter Grass (1927-) |
| I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. | Heinz R. Pagels |
| Wine books flow from printing presses like water from broken spigots. | Howard G. Goldberg |
| He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter | Isaac Barrow |
| Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners | Isaac Disraeli |
| Koch has committed egocide with this book. | Jack Newfield (1938-) |
| There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) |
| Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book | James Walker |
| 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 (1926-) |
| Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. | Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) |
| The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products. | John Berendt |
| Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902) |
| The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) |
| The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? For when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks | John Harrington (1882-) |
| A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity | John Sullivan Dwight |
| There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. | Josef Skvorecky (1924-) |
| Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time | Joseph Allen (1873-) |
| My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve | Joseph Howe |
| A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for. | Kenneth Turan |
| Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice | L. Estrange |
| What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. | Lawrence Clark Powell |
| If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. | Lily Tomlin (1939-) |
| Study nature, not books | Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) |
| Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring. | M. F. K. Fisher |
| With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from me. | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen | Maimonides (1135-1204) |
| A home without books is a body without soul. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it | Moses Hadas |
| This book fills a much-needed gap. | Moses Hadas |
| I have read your book and much like it. | Moses Hadas |
| A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. | Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) |
| 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 |
| The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den | Philip Andrew Adams |
| In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. | Richard Eder |
| No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one | Robert Byrne (1930-) |
| Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please | Robert Chambers (1802-1871) |
| When the [Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. | Robert H. Jackson |
| A book is the only immortality. | Rufus Choate (1799-1859) |
| If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom. | Rumer Godden (1907-) |
| Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it! | Ruth Gordon (1896-1985) |
| For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own. | Spencer Tracy (1900-1967) |
| My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. | Thomas Helm |
| If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it | Toni Morrison (1931-) |
| A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. | William Styron (1925-) |
| This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished. | Aleksander Solzhenitsyn |
| 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 |
| For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. | Amy Lowell (1874-1925) |
| All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words. | Amy Lowell (1874-1925) |
| If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. | Anne Frank (1929-1945) |
| Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. | Annie Dillard (1945-) |
| Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. | Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) |
| Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. | Aristofanes (450 f.Kr.-388 f.Kr.) |
| Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. | Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965) |
| A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. | Brendan Francis |
| To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| Books are embalmed minds | Christian Nevell Bovee |
| By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him | Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) |
| This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. | Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) |
| I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. | E. M. Forster (1879-1970) |
| Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
| Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story. | George Brett (1953-) |
| Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. | George William Curtis (1824-1892) |
| 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 (1817-1862) |
| Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. | Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) |
| If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed. | Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) |
| A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with | Lawrence Clark Powell |
| Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. | Lawrence Clark Powell |
| I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create somethin | Lawrence Clark Powell |
| A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent | Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) |
| A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate. | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| A room without books is like a body without a soul. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. | Oswald Chambers |
| A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. | Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) |
| Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. | Pat Riley (1972-) |
| 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 (1913-1995) |
| Real poverty is lack of books | Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) |
| Beware the man of one book. | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. | William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) |
| Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. | William Styron (1925-) |
| Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed | William Temple, Sr. |
| A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. | William Styron (1925-) |
| The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) |
| The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| 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 (1926-) |
| If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. | Anatole Broyard |
| When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before | Cliff Fadiman |
| What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. | Lily Tomlin (1939-) |
| Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. | Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) |
| Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. | Thomas Helm |
| Books are a uniquely portable magic | Stephen King (1947-) |
| A book is a gift you can open again and again. | Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
| It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. | Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) |
| Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| The proper study of mankind is books. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished. | Aleksander Solzhenitsyn |
| Books are a finer world within the world. | Alexander Smith (1830-1867) |
| 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 |
| That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. | Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) |
| All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words. | Amy Lowell (1874-1925) |
| Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent to me | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people. | Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-) |
| Books are the curse of the human race | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Books had instant replay long before televised sports. | Bern Williams |
| A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| A book holds a house of gold | Chinese Proverbs |
| 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. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. | Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) |
| I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. | E. M. Forster (1879-1970) |
| A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. | Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) |
| Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
| When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love | Erica Jong (1942-) |
| You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation--a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| Books are a narcotic | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books. | Gene Shalit (1936-) |
| People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and whi | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| A good book praises itself | German Proverb |
| That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| Anybody who doesn't like this book is healthy | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. | Harper Lee (1926-) |
| Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am. | Henry Miller (1891-1980) |
| Books are not men and yet they stay alive. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three | Italian Proverb |
| Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine per | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it. | Jay Leno (1950-) |
| Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind. | Jeanette Winterson (1959-) |
| The book you don't read can't help | Jim Rohn |
| Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future. | John Mason Brown (1900-1969) |
| Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. | John Wooden (1910-) |
| Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Books, the children of the brain. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The newest books are those that never grow old. | Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) |
| A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. | Mary Ellen Chase (1887-1973) |
| Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to become famous for despising it. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. | Oswald Chambers |
| The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den | Phillip Adams |
| Books are immortal sons deifying their sires | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| I don't go by the rule book...I lead from the heart, not the head. | Princess Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) |
| Every burned book enlightens the world. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Never read any book that is not a year old | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived | Richard Whately (1787-1863) |
| I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. | Salman Rushdie (1947-) |
| 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 (1947-) |
| Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| A man will turn over half a library to make one book | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| I don't trust books. They're all fact and no heart. | Stephen Colbert (1964-) |
| Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike. | Thomas Kempis |
| The Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan,And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man! | Tom Lehrer (1928-) |
| Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. | Truman Capote (1924-1984) |
| The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought | William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) |
| Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can | William Feather (1889-1981) |
| Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. | William Styron (1925-) |
| En bok er ikke mindre verdifull fordi den er lettlest, og heller ikke er den mer pålitelig om den er gørr. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Folk analyserer så mye at de ikke kommer inn til selve kjernen i hva de leser, de står ved porten og famler med sine tusen nøkler uten å være klar over at porten i virkeligheten ikke er låst. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Noen bøker bør en smake på - andre bør en sluke - noen kan tygges og fordøyes. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |