Bright Bookshelf

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

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

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

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

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. - American Proverb

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

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. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

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

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. - John C Maxwell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. - Martin Luther

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

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

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

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. - Iyanla Vanzant

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

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