Book Carvings

A big book is a big bore. - Callimachus

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Beware the man of a single book. - Bertrand Russell

Book lovers never go to bed alone. - Unknown

Reading can seriously damage your ignorance. - Unknown

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. - Rascal Flatts

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. - Mark Twain

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

That Book, sir, is the Rock on which our Republic rests. - Andrew Jackson

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

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

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

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - C S Lewis

Life is a storybook, and those who do not travel only read but a page. - Ravi Zacharias

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis

Many people's tombstones should read: 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' - Nicholas M Butler

I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. - Stephen Hawking

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

You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. - John Le Carre

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom. - Eoin Colfer

The Bible, if ya read it you'd know. It's right in the beginning there, in the Book of Generous. - Archie Bunker

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' - Steven Wright

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. - John Updike

I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature. People, for example, who do not read. - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. - Steven Wright

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen." - Unknown