70+ Short, Funny, and Inspirational Quotes for Your Bookmarks

A good bookmark does more than save your place. It can make you smile, inspire you to keep reading, or remind you why you fell in love with books in the first place. So, if you’re making your own bookmarks, looking for the perfect quote to print, or searching for a thoughtful gift for a fellow reader, this collection has something for every book lover.

Best Short Quotes for Bookmarks

The sooner, the better!”― Franklin W. Dixon

So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa

It’s so much more friendly with two.”― A.A. Milne

Dare to be different, dare to be great”― Rosy M.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!”― Dr. Seuss

Life is an art of mystical combination.”― Talismanist Giebra

A little magic can take you a long way.”― Roald Dahl

Life is short; love is longer.”― Kamand Kojouri

We live for books.”― Umberto Eco

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”― Orhan Pamuk

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”― Margaret Fuller

The world was hers for the reading.”― Betty Smith

A word after a word after a word is power.”― Margaret Atwood

My life is a reading list.”― John Irving

Reading brings us unknown friends”― Honore de Balzac

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”― Louis L’Amour

Impossibilities vanish with faith”― Rosy M

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”― Stéphane Mallarmé

A good book is an event in my life.”― Stendhal

We read to know we’re not alone.”― William Nicholson

Don’t think or judge, just listen.”― Sarah Dessen

There is no friend as loyal as a book.”― Ernest Hemingway

Books are a uniquely portable magic.”― Stephen King

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” ― George R. R. Martin

Believe and you can achieve anything”― Rosy M.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”― Maya Angelou

Daring never goes out of style.”― Talismanist Giebra

Tomorrow’s success starts with today’s belief”- ― Rosy M.

I cannot live without books.”― Thomas Jefferson

Books may well be the only true magic.”― Alice Hoffman

We live for books.”― Umberto Eco

May you live every day of your life.”― Jonathan Swift

Where there is love there is life.”― Mahatma Gandhi

Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”― Roy T. Bennett

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”― Pablo Neruda

Some people have lives; some people have music.”― John Green

Look after my heart – I’ve left it with you.”― Stephenie Meyer

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”― Nicolas Chamfort

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”― Logan Pearsall Smith

Hearts are made to be broken.”― Oscar Wilde

Top Funny Bookmark Quotes

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri

Reading books doesn’t make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.” ― Oliver Markus Malloy

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”― Walter Mosley

I can lend you my money not my books.” ― Amit Kalantri

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”― Diane Duane

If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success?”― Jerry Seinfeld

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”― Stephen Fry

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”― Joseph Joubert

It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.”― Maureen Corrigan

Inspirational Quotes for Bookmarks

The past has no power over the present moment.”― Eckhart Tolle

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”― Sun Tzu

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read- Pat Conroy

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” ― William Faulkner

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley

A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.” ― Douglas Adams

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”― Chuck Palahniuk

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”― Walt Disney

Reading books you like can soothe an invisible wound that irritatingly bleeds one’s mood.”― Angelica Hopes

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ― Herman Melville

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” ― Salvador Dali

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss

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

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” ― Coco Chanel

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.” ― Melissa Marr

Life is too short to spend it anyhow.”― Sunday Adelaja

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” ― Bertrand Russell

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”― Napoleon Hill

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”― Dalai Lama XIV

Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”― Roy T. Bennett

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”― Arthur Conan Doyle

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”― Christopher Morley

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ― Paulo Coelho

Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”― Colleen Hoover

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”― Mother Theresa

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”― Roy T. Bennett

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