Pocket Book

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

Every person is a book, each year a chapter. - Mark Twain

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Excite the mind and the hand will reach for the pocket. - Harry Gordon Selfridge

That Book, sir, is the Rock on which our Republic rests. - Andrew Jackson

Everything comes to him who waits. Except a loaned book. - Kin Hubbard

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. - Paul Brown

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin F Tupper

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp. - Tom Clancy

Books are no different from goats - they enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. - Kate Bernheimer

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. - Groucho Marx

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

It is my custom to call this book 'An Anatomy of All the Parts of the Soul.' - John Calvin

Like the Good Book says, "Let him who is without sin be the rolling stone." - Archie Bunker

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

It's not the cost of the book. It's what it may cost you not to buy and read it. - Jim Rohn

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. - John Le Carre

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket. - Ambrose Bierce

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at eighteen and at forty-eight. - Ezra Pound

All the days ordained for me
Were written in your book
Before one of them came to be. - Psalms 139:16

Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket. - Groucho Marx

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. - Martin Luther

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? - Matthew Perry

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command. - Monica Crowley

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. - Raymond Chandler

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. - Barbara Ehrenreich