Bright Bookshelf

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Allege: A high rock shelf. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

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

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

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

We can close the books on infectious diseases. - William H Stewart

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

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

I have put out my books and now my house has a soul. - Cicero

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

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

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Markus Herz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Internet: The best library in the world, but with all its books strewn across the floor - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson

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

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

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