Every book is a failure.
George Orwell

I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson

The age of the book is about gone.
George Steiner

I grew up kissing books and bread.
Salman Rushdie

Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman

We think of an eBook as an intelligent pet.
BeeHive Hypertext

Reading surrounds us, labels us, defines us.
Xerox Parc

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read.
Isaiah

We read about 1,000 times more than we write.
Xerox Parc*

Classic*a book people praise and don�t read.
Mark Twain

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
E M Forster

Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred.
Gunther Grass

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page.
Anonymous

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.
Stephan Mallarme

You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books.
Carter Burden

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

The public library is the most dangerous place in town.
John Ciardi

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Author Unknown

A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
Thomas Kempis

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
Charles Dickens

Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.
Herman Melville

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Winston Churchill

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me
C.S. Lewis

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.
Wendell Ford

Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
St. Augustine

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
Franz Kafka

Every man must die sooner or later, but good books must be preserved.
Don Vincente

What in the world would we do without our libraries?
Katharine Hepburn

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw

I�ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit
in a library
F. Scott Fitzgerald

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine

One thing’s sure and nothing’s surer; the rich get richer and the poor get * children.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West

The portability of the book, like that of the easel painting, added much to the new cult of individualism.
Marshall McLuhan

The written word remains. The spoken word takes wing and cannot be recalled.
Anonymous

A circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The closest thing we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library.
Ashleigh Brilliant

A good library is a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
Samuel Niger

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will
have knowledge.
Idries Shah

Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Ecclesiastes

If there�s a book you really want to read but it hasn�t been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison

Keep reading books, but remember that a book�s only a book, and you should learn
to think for yourself.
Maxim Gorky

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and
at forty-eight.
Ezra Pound

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde

It took people 10 years to figure out that while stuck in a morning commute, they could be listening to a book.
Publishers WEEKLY*

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Harold Kushner

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won�t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
Leo Tolstoy

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.
Toni Morrison

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Thomas Rowan

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
Carl Sagan

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.
Electro*Library

Books are the carriers of civilization�They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
Barbara W. Tuchman

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

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.
Vincent van Gogh

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better book can there be than the book of humanity?
Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
Holbrook Jackson

Change can be scary. When papyrus replaced clay tablets, and the Gutenberg press calligraphy, did a bit of panic set in? Are we in the midst of a revolution of similar proportion? Very probably.
Susan McLester

A popular admonition goes Don�t judge a book by its cover. Yet we do it all the time. We ascribe qualities of character to people based on their physical characteristics. And our language takes shape to reflect that attitude.
Anu Garg

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas*a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins*

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.
N. Katherine Hayles