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Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Beware the man of a single book. - Bertrand Russell

Book lovers never go to bed alone. - Unknown

Manners are love in a cool climate. - Quentin Crisp

I don't read books. I write them. - Henry Kissinger

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

Every person is a book, each year a chapter. - Mark Twain

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

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

People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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. - Markus Herz

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - C S Lewis

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

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

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. - Tom Hanks

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

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis

Book Censor: A person who reads so much he gets asterisks in front of his eyes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program. - John F Kennedy

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain

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

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool. - Kesha

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

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. - Leo Burnett

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

Learn to say 'no.' It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. - Charles H Spurgeon

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

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. - Arnold Palmer

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at eighteen and at forty-eight. - Ezra Pound

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

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

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

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. - Finley Peter Dunne

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

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

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

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

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

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

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time. - Arnold Bennett

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

Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson

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

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' - Steven Wright

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

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

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

If you think that praise is due, now's the time to show it, 'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead. - Unknown

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 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

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

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater