Leaning Bookshelves

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. - Neil Gaiman

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

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

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. - American Proverb

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

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. - Rita Rudner

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

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

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 bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

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

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. - John C Maxwell

When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

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

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

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

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

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. - Stephen Covey

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

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

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey