***For every successful man there is a stolen book behind.
---Anonymous, Indian Proverb

***To read a book for the first time is to get an a new girl friend in a chat room; to read it for a second time is to chat with a boring boy. .
--- Anonymous, Chinese saying

***He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
- Anonymous, Arabic Proverb


*** A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
- Henry Brooke

*** Book lovers never go to bed alone.
- Unknown

***There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
- Rex Stout

*** Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.
- Tom Masson

*** Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.
- Unknown

*** Book -- what they make a movie out of for television.
- Leonard Louis Levinson

*** On how many people's libraries, as on bottles from the drugstore, one might write: "For external use only."
- Unknown

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Quotes About Borrowing Books

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other people have lent me. - Anatole France

Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. - Charles Lamb

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. - John Steinbeck