Book Quotes

I’ve read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don’t even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Every book that you read has taught you a lesson, a lesson you will cherish forever.

I haven’t read any of the autobiographies about me.

Books are great. A lot of condensed knowledge in the palm of your hand.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

I’ve never read one book about my father.