Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
It's fine if the law bans books because government won't really enforce it.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
So long as there is this book, there will be no peace in the world.
Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,
The fields his study, nature was his book.
Seek truth from thought, not in mouldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pool.