Books

     A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book (e-book).

Quotes about Books

• 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 
• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ― Groucho Marx 
• 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 
• Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. ― John Green 
• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ― Joseph Brodsky 
• So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. ― Roald Dahl 
• Think before you speak. Read before you think. ― Fran Lebowitz 
• Never judge a book by its movie. ― J.W. Eagan
• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ― Marcus Tullius 
• Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ― Humphrey Carpenter 
• Books are the mirrors of the soul. ― Virginia Woolf
• Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ― Cassandra Clare 
• Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. ― J.K. Rowling 
• We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. ― Jules Verne 
• 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 
• Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? ― David Baldacci 
• 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 Mann 
• Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ― Jesse Lee Bennett 
• Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. ― Vera Nazarian 
• Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ― Harold Bloom 
• If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! ― John Waters