Category Detail for Books (10 Quotes)

  Author Category Subject Content
1 Ambrose Bierce Humor Books The covers of this book are too far apart.
2 Ambrose Bierce Humor Books The covers of this book are too far apart.
3 Henry David Thoreau Literature Books Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
4 James Bryce Literature Books The worth of a book is what you can carry away from it.
5 Mark Twain Literature Books A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
6 Mark Twain Literature Books A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
7 Thomas Jefferson Literature Books Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
8 Moses Hadas Literature Books I have read your book and much like it.
9 Mark Twain Literature Books The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
10 Larry Arnn Literature Books The great books beckon us to a road upward.