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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. 
--Jim Rohn 

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. 
A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. 
You can borrow that from your kids! 
--Jim Rohn 

You mean like a book? 
--Justin Timberlake N Sync - 
on what he read this year that he most liked 

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, 
or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he 
build his house in the woods, the world will make a 
beaten path to his door. 
--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Some books are undeservedly forgotten, 
none are undeservedly remembered. 
--W.H. Auden 

A room without a book is like a body without a soul. 
--Marcus Tullius Cicero 

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

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that 
show the world own shame. 
--Oscar Wilde 

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

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on 
Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches 
every day of your life. 
--Walt Disney 

A house without books is like a room without windows. 
--Horace Mann 

Motherhood is like Albania - you can't trust the 
descriptions in the books, you have to go there. 
--Marni Jackson 

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, 
but his books were read'. 
--Hillaire Belloc 

I have fallen in love a thousand times in my lifetime. 
All which have been with books 
--Unknown 

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

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend 
is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. 
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 

Choose your friends like your books, few but choice. 
--American Proverb 

It is far better to be silent than merely to 
increase the quantity of bad books. 
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet] 

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out 
that story books had been written by people, that books were 
not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. 
--Eudora Welty (1909-____) US author 

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, 
but minds alive on the shelves. 
--Gilbert Highet 

A library is an arsenal of liberty. 
--Unknown 

The covers of this book are too far apart. 
--Ambrose Bierce 

Books were my pass to personal freedom. 
I learned to read at age three, and soon 
discovered there was a whole world to conquer 
that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. 
--Oprah Winfrey (1954-) US TV personality, actress 

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. 
--Sir Winston Churchill 

Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only 
a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting 
a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be 
found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text 
--James Lovelock 

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, 
but many have while trying to write one. 
--Robert Byrne 

Room without books is like a body without a soul 
--Marcus Tullius Cicero 

Today's public figures can no longer write their own 
speeches or books, and there is some evidence that 
they can't read them either. 
--Gore Vidal 

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: 
this it the ideal life. 
--Mark Twain 

I find television very educating. 
Every time somebody turns on the set, 
I go into the other room and read a book. 
--Groucho Marx 

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete. 
--Robert M. Hamilton