Bright Bookshelf

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

Sacrilege: Shelf for bottles of holy water - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. - Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

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

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

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

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

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

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

Carpenter: 1. A guy who nails down his agreement; 2. A shelf made man. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

My problem with reading books is that I get distracted. By other books. - Unknown

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

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

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

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

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

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? - Bette Midler

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

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

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

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. - Milla Jovovich

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

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

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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