The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language, not set its style.
- Phillip Babcock Gove

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.
- Contanitin

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- Anna Quindlen

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Many persons read and like fiction.  It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.
- Rose Macaulay

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
- Dorothy Parker

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

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes – a symbol of race and a bond of union – great books are to the wandering souls of men:  they are the Meccas of the mind.
- G.E. Woodberry

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.
- Howard Pyle

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
- Christopher Morley

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
- Jean Cocteau

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
- Holbrook Jackson

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A blessed companion is a book, – a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,… a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own.
- Douglas Jerrold

I am a part of all I have read.
- John Kieran

An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Augustine Birrell

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
- Heinrich Heine

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
- Austin Phelps

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P.J. O’Rourke

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
- Gertrude Stein

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
- E.M. Forster

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.  It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.
- Edward P. Morgan

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
- Caroline Gordon

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
- Seneca

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book  it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Alfred Hitchcock

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
- Samuel Butler

A book is to me like a hat or coat – a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.
- Charles B. Fairbanks

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
- E.P. Whipple

You can cover a great deal of country in books.
- Andrew Lang

Reading means borrowing.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favorite book.
- Marcel Proust

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
- Sutton Elbert Griggs