(2953 quotes found)
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
Garrison Keillor
“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“I live for books.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”
Henry David Thoreau
“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
Mark Twain
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
