Book Carvings

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

Are we not like two volumes of one book? - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. - Sarah Orne Jewett

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. - Will Rogers

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

Preface: That part of a book which is never read. - Unknown

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. - Lemony Snicket

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. - Jane Smiley

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

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? - Steven Wright

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. - Shereen El Feki

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies. - Wally Amos

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Markus Herz

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. - Laura Bush

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr

For those of you who haven't read the book, it's been published tomorrow. - David Frost

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

You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations. - Oscar Wilde

It's not the cost of the book. It's what it may cost you not to buy and read it. - Jim Rohn

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller

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

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. - Jonathan Lynn

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. - Charles Scribner

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read an write, everyone would limp and stutter. - Mark Twain

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. - Jane Austen

I love sushi, though I just read something about how you shouldn't eat sushi more than once a week. - Jacqueline Obradors

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? - Matthew Perry

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

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" - Joseph Heller

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson