Quotes 101 till 120 of 489.
-
Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
-
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
-
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
-
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
-
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
-
Books tap the wisdom of our species - the greatest minds, the best teachers - from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
-
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
-
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
-
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
-
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
-
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
-
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
-
Books, the children of the brain.
A Tale of a Tub (1704) -
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
-
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-
Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
-
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
All check-books famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 6)
