World Book Day is a celebration created in 1995 by UNESCO. Its purpose is to pay a world wide tribute to books and authors who have contributed to the social and cultural progress of humanity, to encourage reading and a love of books and to discover the pleasure of reading.
List of famous quotations about books
* A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and reamins a friend. (Author Unknown)
* Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. (Author Unknown)
* A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. (Wlliam Styron)
* A good book has no ending. (R.D. Cumming)
* Books are the quietest and most constant friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. (Charles W. Elliot)
* 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)
* The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can´t read them. (Mark Twain, attributed)
* A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
* Books lets us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
* 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.
* A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
* A house without books is like a room without windows.
* The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can´t read them. (Mark Twain, attributed)
* A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
* Books lets us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
* 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.
* A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
* A house without books is like a room without windows.
