Sayings About Books

Hey all! I just happened to cross an old collection of  great sayings about books I had a long time ago, and I figured I have to share them with you. Enjoy!

*If you read a lot of books, you’re considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed.

*A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.

*It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.  ~Oscar Wilde

*Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

*A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.  It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.

*The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

*If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.  ~Toni Morrison

*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

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

*The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.  ~Mark Twain

*”Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.  ~François Mauriac

*Never judge a book by its movie.  ~J.W. Eagan

*Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

*In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

*All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

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