I'm opening a bookstore in Boulder Creek, California, soon. I plan to call it Highway 9 3/4 Books. We have a logo for the front of the tee shirt, and need to choose a few good quotes to go on the back. My favorite so far is "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Francis Bacon
What's your suggestion?
2006-10-25 02:39:22 · 16 answers · asked by auntb93again 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Sterno73, yours is a good one, but a shop in Santa Cruz has already used that one, and we're in the same county. It would be assumed I was copying. I do like it a great deal, though.
2006-10-25 02:57:51 · update #1
Delightful! Some old favorites, some I hadn't heard before. And unfortunately, some unattributed. I'll put it to a vote.
2006-10-25 13:05:16 · update #2
"please buy some books"
2006-10-25 02:41:39 · answer #1 · answered by fugue.state 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
At Hot Topic: "It's In To Be Out!" "Clean Up The Earth Before It Ends Up Like Uranus!" haha. xD
2016-05-22 12:38:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't think of any right now off hand other than Alexander Pope's Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind... (For some strange reason.)
I'm off my game today obviously, see what happens to a perfectly good mind when it decides to be in a good mood...?
Anyway.
Check out Oscar Wilde. He was a genius at satire and spitting quotes on books and people.
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. "
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. "
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. "
2006-10-25 03:34:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are some of my favs:
"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothes."- Desiderus Erasmus
"I cannot live without books"- Thomas Jefferson, 1815
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library"- Jorge Luis Borges
Check here for more:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Books
2006-10-25 03:45:02 · answer #4 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is reading but silent conversation?
* Walter Savage Landor
I really like these "Book: A garden carried in a pocket. - Arabian Proverb"
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain
Books to the ceiling
Books to the sky.
My pile of books
Are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard
By the time I read them.
Arnold Lobel
2006-10-25 03:42:09 · answer #5 · answered by s_ringler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are a few good ones.....
You can never be too thin, too rich or have too many books
Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book
The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page
The true university of these days is a collection of books
Books may well be the only true magic
2006-10-25 04:19:50 · answer #6 · answered by mystic_chez 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What a great idea to have tee shirts from your store. My favourite quote would have to be
"A room without books, is like a body without a soul"
Cicero
Edit
Must be a good one as I see Mikem has the same quote....see, great minds think alike!
2006-10-25 02:49:24 · answer #7 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Books Take Me Away
2006-10-25 03:06:31 · answer #8 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe these qoutes will help you:
1.Books think for me.
2.With every word you read you add a millimeter to your mental strature.
3.Knowledge is power
2006-10-25 02:54:41 · answer #9 · answered by interesting 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Never judge a book by its movie.
-J. W. Eagan
2006-10-25 02:44:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
"Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
2006-10-25 02:47:34 · answer #11 · answered by sterno73 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋