It's a new month... time for some new bug fixes!
While Matt is still working on harnessing the book data that we all have contributed to, and making it available for searches, he's also been rather busy fixing other things, and even adding some nifty little features. Read all about it in this Announcements forum post.Bookish Quotes
Here is a list of all the Bookish Quotes that rotate at random on the site.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Fortunately everybody drinks water.
- Mark Twain
When I am dead
I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet
but his books were read.'
- Hilaire Belloc
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
- Samuel Paterson
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
- Joseph Joubert
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibres as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
- Herman Melville
There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books.
- George Santayana
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
- Oscar Wilde
Child! Do not throw this book about;
refrain from the unholy pleasure
of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
- Hilaire Belloc
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.
- D.H. Lawrence
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
- T.S. Eliot
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
- Thomas Carlyle
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hours, and the books of all time.
- John Ruskin
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature. God's image. But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
- John Milton
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.
- Dame Rose Macauley
The book is good
which puts me in a working mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.
- Walter Sickers
We all know books burn -- yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know books are weapons.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books
- Thomas Carlyle
