“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
Source: The Books in My Life
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American novelist 1891–1980Related quotes
“The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.”
Source: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/lsadm10.txt (1873), Ch. II, A General View of Lombard Street
“My wealth is my shelf of books!”
Source: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Face (1979), Chapter 14 (p. 173)
“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”
Source: Houses of Stone
“Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,
And nought is everything and everything is nought.”
Rejected Addresses. Cui Bono?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 245)
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”
Source: Solipsist