Books are your best friends. This is a collection proverbs and quotes about books.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Franz KafkaA bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis PasteurA mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. That's why I read so much.
(unknown author)Source: Game of Thrones
Quoted: Tyrion Lannister
A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert EinsteinAre we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-ValmoreBlind is the bookless man.
Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishing for a room.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen KingDon't believe everything you read, not even in a good book.
MinkukelDon't judge a book by its cover.
Don't look only at apprearances.Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.
Kim LehmanGive an apple to the little ones, a book to the old.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho MarxI kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Robert Louis StevensonI love words.
Richard DawkinsI read it in a book.
Samwell TarlyI thought up an ending for my book. "And he lives happily ever after, till the end of his days."
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Bilbo
Quote from the movie
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Jane AustenIf there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni MorrisonLife is too short to read a bad book.
James JoyceLiterature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir NabokovMake it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard ShawMovies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S.E. HintonMy personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith SitwellNever judge the book by its movie.
J.W. EaganOctober is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.
John SinorOutside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho MarxReading ... a vacation for the mind.
Dave BarryReading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
Lucy Maud MontgomerySource: Anne of Green Gables
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold BloomSince I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
Zoe SuggSome people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.
Lex LuthorSomeone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen HawkingStatler: You think this show is educational?
Waldorf: Yes it will drive people to read books.
(unknown author)Waldorf: Yes it will drive people to read books.
Source: The Muppet Show
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha ChristieThe book was better.
(unknown author)Often said after seeing a movie.
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
Anthony TrollopeThe new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
Melody BeattieThe pen is mightier than the sword.
Convincing people with words and ideas is more effective than forcing them to do what you want.The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane AustenSource: Northanger Abbey
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John SteinbeckThe question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David AttenboroughThe science, or it may be an art, of librarianship is an exercise in applied taxonomy.
Richard DawkinsThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint AugustineThe worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Joseph JoubertThere are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles DickensTo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Herman MelvilleWe farmers ought not to have much time for reading; yet somehow one can't help it.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Cranford
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