Sayings about Book:

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially, and expressing his meaning.
Joseph Addison
Sour enthusiasts affect to stigmatize the finest and most elegant authors, both ancient and modern, as dangerous to religion.
Joseph Addison
He often took a pleasure to appear ignorant, that he might the better turn to ridicule those that valued themselves on their books.
Joseph Addison
Shall we not believe books in print?
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
She’s a book
To be with care perus’d.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
There are books extant which they must needs allow of as proper evidence; even the mighty volumes of visible nature, and the everlasting tables of right reason.
Richard Bentley
’Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print;
A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in ’t.
Lord Byron
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
Thomas Carlyle
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in travelling, in the country.
Cicero
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Charles Caleb Colton
Come, my best friends, my books! and lead me on.
Abraham Cowley
Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.
George Crabbe
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
François Fénelon
In books one takes up occasionally one finds a consolation for the impossibility of reading many books, by seeing how many might have been spared,—how little that is new or striking in the great departments of religion, morals, and sentiment.
John Foster
Nothing is more delightful than to lie under a tree, in the summer, with a book, except to lie under a tree, in the summer, without a book.
Charles James Fox
Books make up no small part of human happiness.
Frederick the Great
My latest passion will be for literature.
Frederick the Great
To divert, at any time, a troublesome fancy, run to thy Books. They presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness.
Thomas Fuller
A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the riches of the Indies.
Edward Gibbon
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.
Leigh Hunt
Here, in the country, my books are my sole occupation; books my sure solace, and refuge from frivolous cares. Books, the calmers, as well as the instruction of the mind.
Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald
Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand are the most useful, after all.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Their being forced to their books in an age at enmity with all restraint has been the reason why many have hated books.
John Locke
Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book.
Martin Luther
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
In Athens, where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece, I find but only two sorts of writing which the magistrate cared to take notice of; those either blasphemous and atheistical, or libellous.
John Milton
I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
John Milton
My only books were woman’s looks,
And folly’s all they’ve taught me.
Tom Moore
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Plutarch
Not twice a twelvemonth, you appear in print,
And when it comes, the court see nothing in ’t.
Alexander Pope
To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor.
Alexander Pope
Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.
William Shakespeare
Employ your time in improving yourselves by other men’s documents; so shall you come easily by what others have laboured hard for. Prefer knowledge to wealth; for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates
For he had no catechism but the creation, needed no study but reflection, and read no book but the volume of the world.
Robert South
Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change.
Jonathan Swift
The collectors only consider, the greater fame a writer is in possession of, the more trash he may bear to have tacked to him.
Jonathan Swift
It is the editor’s interest to insert what the author’s judgment had rejected; and care is taken to intersperse these additions, so that scarce any book can be bought without purchasing something unworthy of the author.
Jonathan Swift
The design is to avoid the imputation of pedantry, to show that they understand men and manners, and have not been poring upon old unfashionable books.
Jonathan Swift
’Tis obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country, and how great a difference this must make in the excellence of books.
Sir William Temple
Such printers are not to be defrauded of their due commendation who employ their endeavour to restore the fruitful works of ancient writers.
William Tyndale
Our fathers had a just value for regularity and system: then folios and quartos were the fashionable size, as volumes in octavo are now.
Dr. Isaac Watts
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Authors by sayings about book: Joseph Addison, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Richard Bentley, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle, Cicero, Charles Caleb Colton, Abraham Cowley, George Crabbe, François Fénelon, John Foster, Charles James Fox, Frederick the Great, Thomas Fuller, Edward Gibbon, Leigh Hunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald, Dr. Samuel Johnson, John Locke, Martin Luther, John Milton, Tom Moore, Plutarch, Alexander Pope, William Shakespeare, Socrates, Robert South, Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Tyndale, Dr. Isaac Watts.
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