Book Carvings

Book Of Ecclesiasticles - Archie Bunker

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

Are we not like two volumes of one book? - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Never read a book that is not a year old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good title is the title of a successful book. - Raymond Chandler

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book. - Billy Horschel

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

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. - Jamie Lee Curtis

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. - Learned Hand

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

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 large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis

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

I got something important here to read and sign and I gotta consecrate on that. - Archie Bunker

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

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

For those of you who haven't read the book, it's been published tomorrow. - David Frost

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. - Vicesimus Knox

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. - John Green

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

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations. - Oscar Wilde

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. - Arnold Palmer

When a book and a head come into contact and one of them sounds hollow, is it always the book? - Arthur Schopenhauer

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. - Malcolm Forbes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocket book groans more loudly than an empty stomach. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I took a speed reading course and read "War and Peace" in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? - Matthew Perry

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

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. - Toni Sorenson

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

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler