Bookshelf Stash

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. - Ogden Nash

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

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

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

You're a bartender, y'aint a mortrician. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Liquor talks mighty loud when it gets loose from the jug. - Joel C Harris

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

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

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

A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them. - William Hazlitt

Books are no different from goats - they enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. - Kate Bernheimer

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

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. - John C Maxwell

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

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

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

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

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

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. - Martin Luther

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

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

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

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

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

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

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey