Famous quotes containing the words men and/or books:
“Wine does not intoxicate peoplethey do it themselves; beauty does not lead men astraythey lead themselves astray.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (18991986)