Book Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
– Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.”
– Doug Coupland

“Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.”
– Doug Coupland

“Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.”
– E. M. Forster

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
– Emily Dickinson

“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
– Emily Dickinson

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“So many books, so little time.”
– Frank Zappa

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
– Franz Kafka

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of “eternity”; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
– Garrison Keillor

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
– George R.R. Martin

“I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.”
– George W. Bush

“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.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx

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

“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.”
– Groucho Marx

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx

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

“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.”
– Groucho Marx

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