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- You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
- Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153), Epistle
- I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
- Sir Thomas Malory (1400 - 1471), Le Morte d'Arthur
- Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
- As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
- Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
- The postman always rings twice.
- James M. Cain (1892 - 1977), Book title
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
- The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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