501 Quotes by Book

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that’s all there was.

Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That’s what enlightenment is all about.

The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.