Black Dog Books

Famous quotes containing the words books, black and/or dog:

    “My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “I could see the thing
    with its black head
    but there wasn’t a tear left
    and the scar of my wound
    was hard.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Better to be a dog in times of peace than a human being in times of trouble.”
    —Chinese proverb.