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- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- 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)
- Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
- Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
- Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. - Arnold Lobel
- I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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