Bookshelf Stash

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. - Ogden Nash

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can lead a horse to water but I'd rather ride it to the liquor store. - Wayne Nowazek

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

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

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

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

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

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

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

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

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

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

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

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

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