Friday, November 30, 2007

Quotes About Books

Famous quotes offer insights to life, humour, and can show us a different way to think. These are just a few that I love, from some famous authors.


“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”

- Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925)
Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, author.


“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.”

- Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)
American producer of 70+ films


Books to the ceiling,

Books to the sky,

My pile of books is 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 (1933-1987)
Childrens writer, awarded Caldecott Medal in 1981




“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
American poet, professor of Modern Languages at Harvard.


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

-Mark Twain


A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

-Chinese Proverb


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

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