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Quotes of the Day for 30 September 2004 - Books

Something extraordinary happened at Mainz, Germany on this date in 1452. A goldsmith cum printer by the name of Johann Gutenberg started a print job. It was a big job, and took over two years to complete: The first verifiable book printed with moveable type. There are 24 letters in the Latin alphabet, but Gutenberg cast 47 different capital letters and 243 lower-case letters in matching the fine hand-lettered work of scribes. Gutenberg wasn't the only person involved in the development of printing by a long shot, but it all came together in his shop and changed the world.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
     - Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 - 1832

Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
     - Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat, or fly into the future.
     - James Alonzo Bishop, 1907 - 1987

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
     - Miguel de Cervantes, 1547 - 1616

Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

Books are a uniquely portable magic.
     - Stephen King

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