Mystery Books

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

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

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

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

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

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. - Alberto Manguel

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. - Albert Einstein

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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - Lily Tomlin

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

Books are no different from goats - they enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. - Kate Bernheimer

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

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

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

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon

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

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

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

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

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. - Henry G. Miller

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

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

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. - Raymond Chandler

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