Book Quotes

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Why is The Origin of Species such a great book? First of all, because it convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution: it provides a vast and well-chosen body of evidence showing that existing animals and plants cannot have been separately created in their present forms, but must have evolved from earlier forms by slow transformation.

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library

Coming into contact with a good book and possessing it, is indeed an everlasting enrichment.

Stories of perseverance and extraordinary courage always inspire me. This piece in a book called Everyday Greatness by Stephen R. Covey has remained with me ever since.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.