Some Quotes About Books

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark too read.” [Groucho Marx]

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” [Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta (Buddha), the founder of Buddhism]

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” [Jerry Seinfeld]

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” [CS Lewis]

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” [Mark Twain]

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” [George Bernard Shaw]

“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.” [Voltaire]

“Every burned book enlightens the world.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” [Ray Bradbury]

“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.” [Thomas Helm]

One Response

  1. Great quotes, still giggling abou the Mark Twain one.

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