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

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

Carpenter: 1. A guy who nails down his agreement; 2. A shelf made man. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

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

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon

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

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

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. - Milla Jovovich

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

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

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

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

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

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

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