Bookshelf Stash

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. - Ogden Nash

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

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

You're a bartender, y'aint a mortrician. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

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

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

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

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