Stealth Readers
Finding peace and quiet in the library
QuotaBillsBeware the man of a single book. - Bertrand Russell
No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith
I don't read books. I write them. - Henry Kissinger
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Unknown
Honesty if the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson
The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen
Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. - Lemony Snicket
In the book of life, the answers aren't on the back. - Charlie Brown
Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage
A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. - Francis Bacon
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
You can never get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. - Groucho Marx
I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr
I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf
There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. - Dwight L. Moody
For those of you who haven't read the book, it's been published tomorrow. - David Frost
It is my custom to call this book 'An Anatomy of All the Parts of the Soul.' - John Calvin
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport
When a book and a head come into contact and one of them sounds hollow, is it always the book? - Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb
Book Review: A brief but informative essay that spares readers the ordeal of digesting an actual book - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx
Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden
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
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned now to cook. - Andy Rooney
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan
Accountant: 1. A noble insect; 2. A dutiful book balancer whose role within a corporation is to protect it from creative ideas. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
"Truth tellers" are often called Dividers. But truth doesn't divide, it polarizes. It reveals hidden divisions that already exist. - Unknown