Quotations about Books & Reading

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce



A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
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 W. Eliot

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx


The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed


Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Quotations about Family

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H