suggestions...please...

[Italiahaircolor]

I need help coming up with a good sentiment--about books--that I could have engraved on the front of a Sony ebook reader.

It can''t be long...but should be really good...

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[tlh]

http://www.quotegarden.com/books.html

A good book has no ending... and there are lots more on here!

 

[cbs102]

i like this one:
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
-Victor Hugo

 

[misskitty]

I like

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~William Hazlitt

 

[laurel25]

How about any of these...

"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." --Sir Francis Bacon

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food." --Deciderius Erasmus

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors." --John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books." --François Maurice Mitterrand

"There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind."
--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." --Edward P. Morgan

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren''t very new after all." --Abraham Lincoln

"The man who doesn''t read good books has no advantage over the man who can''t read them." --Mark Twain

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" --Henry Ward Beecher

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

 

[HeartingDiamonds]

A few of my faves:

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Medicine for the soul (Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes)

 

[Italiahaircolor]

Thanks Ladies, actually the more I tried different quotes, the more I realized **nothing** fit on there...so I skipped the engraving...Thanks for looking for me tho, I genuinely appreciate it!!!

 

[tlh]

What about something that you like... that is short? Like the name of your favorite book or something? Sorry I wasn''t more helpful.