Bookshelf Stash

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. - Ogden Nash

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

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

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

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper

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