| "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art." »John Ruskin |
| "Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book." »Muriel Clark |
| "The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer." »Vartan Gregorian |
| "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 |
| "book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible." »Al Jaffee |
| "All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us." »Katherine Paterson |
| "A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book." »Thomas Merton |
| "The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman." »Anonymous |
| "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 |
| "If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us." »Franz Kafka |
| "Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author." »Martin Luther |
| "There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them." »Elie Wiesel |
| "A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that." »B. A. Billingsly |
| "The covers of this book are too far apart." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "I have read your book and much like it." »Moses Hadas |
| "The book you don't read cant help." »Jim Rohn |
| "Woe be to him that reads but one book." »George Herbert |
| "Beware the man of one book." »Saint Thomas Aquinas |
| "A good book has no ending." »R. D. Cumming |
| "No two persons ever read the same book." »Edmund Wilson |
| "When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before." »Clifton Paul Fadiman |
| "A book of quotations . . . can never be complete." »Robert M. Hamilton |
| "Never read a book through merely because you have begun it." »John Witherspoon |
| "Never read a book that is not a year old." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Oh for a book and a shady nook..." »John Wilson |
| "Never judge a book by its movie." »J. W. Eagan |
| "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "I shall curse you with book and bell and candle." »Sir Thomas Malory |
| "Wear the old coat and buy the new book." »Austin Phelps |
| "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." »James Bryce |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
