Quotes related to books, reading

Anyone who has a book collection wants for nothing.

--Cicero

Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculations at a standstill.

--Barbara Tuchman

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

--S.I. Hiyakawa

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

--Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

--William Gladstone

Read in order to Live.

--Gustave Flaubert