"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most
accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
Charles W. Eliot
(1834 - 1936)
Quotes
"Books can be a form of salvation, a way out of
loneliness, a method of understanding and of being
understood." Her Excellency the Right Honourable
Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General of Canada.
"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser." Robertson Davies
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
"What should I get from books?" Alcide asked in French.
"That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else," my father answered in French." David Adams Richards (Mercy Among the Children)
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. Jerry Seinfeld"
"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind." Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
