Cold Books

A big book is a big bore. - Callimachus

I was so cold I almost got married. - Shelley Winters

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

Never underestimate the value of cold cash. - Gregory Nunn

A book is a gift you can open again and again. - Garrison Keillor

A good title is the title of a successful book. - Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

Like the Good Book says, "Patience is a virgin." - Archie Bunker

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

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin F Tupper

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie

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

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems. - Chet Raymo

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

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

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens

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

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. - Mickey Spillane

The dent in his car is hardly cold and he's coming over here to claim his pound of fish. - Archie Bunker

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. - George Burns

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

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

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan

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

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman

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

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations - it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir. - Stuart Keate

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

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