Some most interesting bookstores of the world. A selection of favorites quotes on 'Books' is included

1. 1

2. Selexyz
Bookstore in
Maastricht,
Holland
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must
not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown 2

3. Shakespeare & Co. Antiquarian Books, Paris
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible
and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot
3

4. The Academic Bookstore in Helsinki, Finland
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 4

5. The Art Nouveau
facade of the Lello
bookstore in Porto,
Portugal
Let books be your
dining table,
And you shall be
full of delights
Let them be your
mattress
And you shall
sleep restful
nights.
~Author Unknown 5

6. A very cramped bookstore in Calcutta, India
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth
than have been presented in the entire history of television.
~Andrew Ross 6

7. The bookstore El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, Argentina
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate
converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
~Kenko Yoshida 7

8. American Book Center in Amsterdam, Holland
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to
another mind. ~James Russell Lowell
8

9. The Bookàbar Bookshop, Rome, Italy
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other
men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
~Jesse Lee Bennett 9

10. Plural Bookshop,
Bratislava, Slovakia
Let your bookcases
and your shelves be
your gardens and
your pleasure-
grounds. Pluck the
fruit that grows
therein, gather the
roses, the spices,
and the myrrh.
~Judah Ibn Tibbon
10

11. Bookworm, Beijing, China
A house without books is like a room without
windows. ~Heinrich Mann 11

12. Cafebreria El
Pendulo, Mexico City,
Mexico
Books are delightful
society. If you go into a
room and find it full of
books - even without
taking them from the
shelves they seem to
speak to you, to bid
you welcome.
~William Ewart
Gladstone
12

13. Livraria da Vila, Sao Paulo, Brazil
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the
way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. ~Henry Ward Beecher
13

14. The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a
burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier
14

15. Atlantis Books, Santorini, Greece
The books that help you the most are those
which make you think the most.
~ Theodore Parker
15

16. Corso Como Bookshop, Milan, Italy
Books open your mind, broaden your mind,
and strengthen you as nothing else can
~William Feather 16

17. Barter Books, Alnwick, United Kingdom
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world
that we cannot enter in any other way
~Caroline Gordon 17

18. Daikanyama T-Site, Tokyo, Japan
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of
generations and nations.
18
~Henry David Thoreau

19. Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, U.S.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
~Confucius 19

20. The End Great Books are trusted friends to treasure.
They are priceless gems beyond measure.
With Metta, Bro. Oh Teik Bin
20