Bright Bookshelf

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

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

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

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

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

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

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

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

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

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

There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot on treasure island. - Walt Disney

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

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

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. - Christopher Walken

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

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

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

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

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

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

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

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