Stealth Readers

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Never judge a book by its movie. - J.W. Egan

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Are we not like two volumes of one book? - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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

In the book of life, the answers aren't on the back. - Charlie Brown

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

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden. - James Herbert

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. - Francis Bacon

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. - E M Forster

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr

For those of you who haven't read the book, it's been published tomorrow. - David Frost

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

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

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. - Renee Magritte

Half - the most beautiful half - of life is hidden from him who has not loved passionately. - Stendhal

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at eighteen and at forty-eight. - Ezra Pound

An author in his book must be like God in the universe: present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Gustave Flaubert

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up. - Ron Santo

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. - Anne-Sophie Swetchine

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

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins