Quotes on Books.

A book is a set of sheets of paper, parchment, or similar materials that are fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page. Writing or images can be printed or drawn on a book's pages. An electronic image that is formatted to resemble a book on a computer screen, smartphone or e-reader device is known as an electronic book or e-book. - wikipedia
There is no friend as loyal as a book. --Ernest Hemingway

 A room without books is like a body without a soul. --Marcus Tullius Cicero

 The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. --Jane Austen

 Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. --Mark Twain

 I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. --Jorge Luis Borges

 Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. --Lemony Snicket

 Classic - a book which people praise and don't read. --Mark Twain

 The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. --Oscar Wilde

 There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. --Joseph Brodsky

 Think before you speak. Read before you think. --Fran Lebowitz

 Never judge a book by its movie. --J.W. Eagan

 Books are the mirrors of the soul. --Virginia Woolf

 Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. --J.K. Rowling

 A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. --Franz Kafka

 Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. --Hermann Hesse

 A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. --Italo Calvino

 Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. --Anatole France

 Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. --Anon

 A house without books is like a room without windows. --Horace Mannp

 Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. --Vera Nazarian

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