A Good Book

Some great quotes about books:

"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 William Eliot - 21st President of Harvard University

"My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter."

Thomas Helm

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

Mark Twain

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."

Paul Sweeney 

"Good books are to the young what the warming sun and refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter."

Horace Mann

 

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

Oscar Wilde

"The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television."

  Andrew Ross



And, on a lighter note:

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

P.J. O'Rourke

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

Groucho Marx

 

"There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house."

Joe Ryan