Happy world book day from us at Wild Thing Toys!
We don’t sell books here but we know that little readers make great leaders, or at least have an open heart and mind and hopefully a lifelong passion for reading.
Below are some of our favourite book quotes:
A book is a device to ignite the imagination. – Alan Bennett
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. – Neil Gaiman
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. – Jerry Seinfield
A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. – Robert Aris Willmott
A good book has no ending. – R.D. Cumming
A house without books is like a room without windows. – Heinrich Mann
A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. – Samuel Johnson
Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. – E.P. Whipple
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. – Henry Ward Beecher
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. – James Russell Lowell
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. – Anna Quindlen
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles William Eliot
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. – William Hazlitt
Books were my pass to personal freedom. – Oprah Winfrey
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. – Emilie Buchwald
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain
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
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison
My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read. – Abraham Lincoln
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. – Thomas Helm
Never judge a book by its movie. – J.W. Eagan
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. – Confucius
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest. – J.A. Langford
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry S. Truman
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. – Frederick Douglass
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. – Ishmael Reed
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape. – Nora Ephron
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. – Joseph Addison
Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. – Hazel Rochman
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom
So many books, so little time. – Frank Zappa
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. – Theodore Parker
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. – Oliver Goldsmith
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. – Elizabeth Hardwick
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense. – J.A. Langford
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen
The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. – Saint Augustine
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. – Clarence Shepard Day
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. – Jacqueline Kennedy
There is no friend as loyal as a book. – Ernest Hemingway
There’s so much more to a book than just the reading. – Maurice Sendak
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. – Victor Hugo
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. – Margaret Fuller
What is reading but silent conversation? – Walter Savage Landor
When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. – Christopher Morley
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. –Vera Nazarian
You cannot open a book without learning something. – Confucius
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. – Paul Sweeney
