Bookshelf Stash

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

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

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

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

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

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

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

Liquor talks mighty loud when it gets loose from the jug. - Joel C Harris

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

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

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

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

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

You can lead a horse to water but I'd rather ride it to the liquor store. - Wayne Nowazek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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