Bookshelf Stash

Liquor Store: A stupor market - 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

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

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

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

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

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

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

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

Carpenter: 1. A guy who nails down his agreement; 2. A shelf made man. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

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

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