Bookstore Entrance

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

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

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. - African Proverb

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. - Alberto Manguel

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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

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

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - Lily Tomlin

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

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

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

Books are no different from goats - they enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. - Kate Bernheimer

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

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

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

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

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

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

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

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

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot