Bookshelf Stash

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

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

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

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

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

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

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

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

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. - John C Maxwell

When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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