Bookshelf Stash

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. - Ogden Nash

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

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

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

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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