Without the history books silent, literature silent,
science crippled, thought stuck.
Books are engines of change,
window of the world,
? lighthouse? like the poet said,
? is mounted on the oceans of time?.
[Barbara Tuchman, 1989]
The book is a window
Sukma we see the world outside through this window
House without books is like a room with no windows
[Henry Ward Beecher, 1870]
The book is like a garden
Which can be inserted into the bag
[Saying China]
The book is a wonderful thing
The book is like a beautiful garden filled with flowers of various colors,
Like the flying carpet
That could blow us
To lands previously unknown
[Frank Gruber, 1944]
Book air and exhale perfumes
[Eugene Field, 1896]
Books must be ax
To destroy the frozen sea within us.
[Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, short story writer and novelist Austria]
Without the book of God was silent,
Justice sunset
Natural Science jammed,
Dumb literary,
Completely overwhelmed and darkness
[Thomas V. Bartholin, 1672]
Books are the quietest friend and always ready in place.
Adviser of the most accessible and wisest,
And extraordinary teacher patiently
[Charles W. Eliot, 1896]
I do not read the book:
I spoke with the author
[Elbert Hubbard, 1927]
Books think for me
[Charles Lamb]
The book is a mirror
If there ass in the mirror,
Nothing will come face of clerical
[G.C. Lichtenberg]
The book is not what we read,
But the books we read
[W.H. Auden, 1973]
My mistress
Book
[S.J. Adair Fitzgerald]
If there is little money, I buy books,
If there are remaining,
I buy food and clothing
[Desiderius Erasmus]
Let me be the poor,
Lived in a shack but it has a lot of books
Rather than be a king but do not like to read
[Thomas B. Macaulay, 1876]
Many people like me
People who need books, as they need air
[Richard Marek, 1987]
I can not live without books
[Thomas Jefferson, 1815]
Sitting alone under the lights,
Outstretched in front of the book,
Converse intimately with people from a generation that did not appear?
It was a pleasure not bertara
[Yoshida Kenko, 1688]
Habit of reading is the only pure pleasure
When other pleasures fade, pleasure reading remains
[Anthony Trollope]
Where people can know about the time spent
Weariness and difficulty learning to read (book)
I have 80 years of trying,
Not yet reached the goal
[Goethe]
Someone lost touch with reality
When not surrounded by his books
[Francois Mitterand, President of France, 1982]
Like flesh to flesh, so reading for the soul
[Seneca]
Good book
Like chatting with great people
From the previous centuries
[Rene Descartes, 1617]
People can get high-class education
From the bookshelf a five-foot
[Charles William Eliot, Harvard University President]
True university these days
Is a collection of books
[Thomas Carlyle]
I will finish this introduction with a quote Jorge Luis Borge, poet, short story writer and essayist Argentina (1899? 1986), Director of the National Library of Argentina (1955? 1973) about the library said,
I always imagined that Paradise
Like a kind of library.
