There is no robber worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb
A wicked book cannot repent. – Proverb
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. – Proverb
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. Adler
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J. Adler
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott
Beware of the person of one book. – Thomas Aquinas
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. – Isaac Asimov
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. – W. H. Auden
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. – W. H. Auden
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen
Everything in this book may be wrong. The Saviors Manual – Richard Bach
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. – Nicholson Baker
When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. – E.S. Barrett
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. – James Barrie
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. – Barrow
