or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
– Henry David Thoreau –
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
– Emilie Buchwald –
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be—
I had a Mother who read to me.
-Strickland Gillilan –
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision
and strengthens our most fatal tendency—
the belief that the here and now is all there is.
– Allan Bloom –
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
– Edmund Burke –
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen,
is that you can take it to bed with you.
– Daniel J. Boorstin –
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand,
and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors,
that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
– Oswald Chambers –
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
– Mary Ellen Chase –
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
– Chinese proverb –
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
– Marcus T. Cicero –
I often feel sorry for people who don’t read good books;
they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.
– Scott Corbett –
Never judge a book by its movie.
– J. W. Eagan –
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
– Albert Einstein –
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 –
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe,
were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
– Francois FéNelon –
The person who deserves most pity
is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.
– Benjamin Franklin –
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends
imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep,
for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
– Paxton Hood –
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
– Japanese proverb –
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
– James Russell Lowell –
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
– Joseph Joubert –
The pleasure of reading is doubled
when one lives with another who shares the same books.
– Katherine Mansfield –
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
– Samuel Johnson –
I must say that I find television very educational.
The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
– Groucho Marx –
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.
– Unknown –
A library is thought in cold storage.
– Herbert Samuel –
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
– Mark Twain –
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
– Bert Williams –
Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
– Anna Quindlen –