Book Carvings

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

When you read the riot act, be prepared to enforce it. - Saying

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. - Emily Dickinson

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

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain

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

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

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. - Ernest Hemingway

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. - Robin Sharma

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

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

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. - Groucho Marx

I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. - Winston Churchill

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. - Stephen Hawking

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. - Karen Russell

Like the Good Book says, "Let him who is without sin be the rolling stone." - Archie Bunker

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger

I wonder why you can always read a Doctor's bill but you can never read his prescription. - Finley Peter Dunne

When a book and a head come into contact and one of them sounds hollow, is it always the book? - Arthur Schopenhauer

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. - Becca Fitzpatrick

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. - Giorgio Baglivi

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. - John Updike

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

Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature. People, for example, who do not read. - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. - Rodney Dangerfield

Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. - Ben Okri

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. - Groucho Marx

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. - Toni Sorenson

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn

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

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen." - Unknown

I've got this thing for spicy stuff. Now, if you give me hot chocolate with chili pepper, a book and a bubble bath, I'm a happy girl. - Shiloh Walker