Book Carvings

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

We read to know we're not alone. - William Nicholson

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

I read part of it all the way through. - Samuel Goldwyn

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

When I want to read a book, I write one. - Benjamin Disraeli

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. - Sarah Orne Jewett

Every person is a book, each year a chapter. - Mark Twain

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. - Emily Dickinson

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. - Laura Bush

You can never get a cup of tea big 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

When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. - Karen Russell

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

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

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - Harold Abelson

Yearbook: A book containing student pictures that will keep getting nerdier as the years go by - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. - Jonathan Lynn

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

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. - Mark Twain

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

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

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it. - Brigham Young

Book: A depository of knowledge which a student will try to stay awake long enough to read the night before finals - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. - Tallulah Bankhead

Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

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

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. - Soren Kierkegaard

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. - David Viscott

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

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson