Book Carvings

A big book is a big bore. - Callimachus

Never read a book that is not a year old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. - J.D. Salinger

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. - Rascal Flatts

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. - Daphne du Maurier

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen

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

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

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

That Book, sir, is the Rock on which our Republic rests. - Andrew Jackson

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

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

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. - Aneurin Bevan

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Yearbook: A book containing student pictures that will keep getting nerdier as the years go by - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

All the days ordained for me
Were written in your book
Before one of them came to be. - Psalms 139:16

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. - Malcolm Forbes

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

The rasp of the respirator's filter were about as comforting as Darth Vader reading a bedtime story. - Andy McNab

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

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey

The best thing in the famous novels at present is that one does not need to read them; one knows them already. - Henry David Thoreau

I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it. - Brigham Young

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal