I had two choices of articles when I picked this title. The first was a politically directed rant about war. The second was a place asking for people's favorite quotes.
I'm going for option two. (Ten bonus points if you notice the trend)
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
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 W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sir Francis Bacon