Stealth Readers

Book Of Ecclesiasticles - Archie Bunker

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

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

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. - Mike Murdock

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. - Mason Cooley

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

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. - Robin Sharma

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. - Laura Bush

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Charles de Montesquieu

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

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

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. - Dwight L. Moody

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot on treasure island. - Walt Disney

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

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

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport

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

An author in his book must be like God in the universe: present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Gustave Flaubert

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. - Flannery O'Connor

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

The Bible, if ya read it you'd know. It's right in the beginning there, in the Book of Generous. - Archie Bunker

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. - Giorgio Baglivi

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. - Evita Peron

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions. - Harvey Mackay

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