Books
The world is a book, and those who don't travel read only one page.
Never judge a book by its cover.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
I never feel lonely if I've got a book — they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Willie: There's more than one way to skin a cat.
ALF: You've been looking at my recipe book.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
'Classic'. A book which people praise and don't read.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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