Yet More Bookish Quotes

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Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
~Groucho Marx

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

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
~W. Somerset Maugham

Americans like fat books and thin women.
~Russell Baker

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
~John LeCarre

The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven’t] read.
~ Abraham Lincoln

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.
~ Jacqueline Kennedy

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
~ Emilie Buchwald