Leaning Bookshelves

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

I don't read books. I write them. - Henry Kissinger

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

Sacrilege: Shelf for bottles of holy water - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We can close the books on infectious diseases. - William H Stewart

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

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

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

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

My problem with reading books is that I get distracted. By other books. - Unknown

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

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

A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them. - William Hazlitt

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

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

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

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? - Bette Midler

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

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

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

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

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

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

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

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

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

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 remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. - Iyanla Vanzant

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