Bookshelf Stash

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

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

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

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

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

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

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

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

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

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

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

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

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

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

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

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

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