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Booksellers

 

". . . a library tends to become a veritable Frankenstein, eating up elbow-room and bearing down like an avalanche on space, long before its creator realizes it to be no longer his slave." Thomas Moult: Introduction to Spencer's Forty Years in My Bookshop

 

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

~Lord Henry P. Brougham

 

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." Logan Pearsall Smith.

 

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.” - Horace Mann

 

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)

 

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

--Jim Rohn

 

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars.

You can borrow that from your kids!

--Jim Rohn

 

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

--Walt Disney

 

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet,

but his books were read'.

--Hillaire Belloc

 

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

 

I have fallen in love a thousand times in my lifetime.

All which have been with books

--Unknown

 

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

 

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

--Eudora Welty

 

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

--Gilbert Highet

 

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

--Unknown

 

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

--Gore Vidal

 

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life.

--Mark Twain

 

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

--Groucho Marx

 

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

 

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

 

"It took people 10 years to figure out that while stuck in a morning commute, they could be listening to a book." Publishers Weekly - Paul Hilts

 

"I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson

 

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

 

"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

 

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

 

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

Wendell Ford

 

"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

 

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

 

"A circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 

"Books may well be the only true magic." Alice Hoffman

 

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return." Imaginary Homelands - 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

 

“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

 

"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

 

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

 

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

 

"Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny.

In this war, we know, books are weapons." Message to the American Booksellers Association - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

"Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred." The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass

 

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

 

"Classic—a book people praise and don’t read." Following the Equator - Mark Twain

 

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

Don Vincente

 

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

 

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Desiderius Erasmus

 

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little. - Voltaire

 

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain

 

Beware the man of one book. - Latin Proverb

 

Books to the ceiling

Books to the sky.

My pile of books

Are a mile high.

How I love them! How I need them!

I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

 

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

Norton Juster

 

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

Oscar Wilde

 

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

Oscar Wilde

 

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

John Steinbeck

 

Never judge a book by its movie.

J. W. Eagan

 

The paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

 

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

 

Why don't you write books people can read?

Nora Joyce, to her husband James

 

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

 

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA

 

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Bennett, Alan

 

Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift. 1667-1745.

 

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

 

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875

 

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

 

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. - Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

 

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - GK Chesterton

 

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - ), Timequake, 1997

 

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. - Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth

 

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. - Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)

 

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

 

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. - Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

 

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. -B. F. Skinner

 

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors,

and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

 

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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