Read in order to live. ~ Gustave FlaubertReading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ~ Mortimer J. Adler Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~ Lord Acton Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ~ W. FusselmanReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Joseph Addison I am a part of everything that I have read. ~ John Kieran Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ~ Anthony MarcelHow can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? ~ George Bernard ShawUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ~ Harper LeeReaders are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ~ Harriet MartineauRead as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. ~ Holbrook JacksonI am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. ~ Isaac AsimovThere is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ~ Isaac Disraeli Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. ~ Francis Bacon People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
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. ~ Joseph Addison You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~ Ray Bradbury The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ~ Katherine Mansfield It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. ~ Lord Henry P. Brougham I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ~ Aneurin Bevan The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. ~ Stan Barstow
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ~ B. F. SkinnerA great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end.You should live several lives while reading it. ~ William Styron
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. ~ Stephane MallarmeOutside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. ~ Groucho Marx
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.~ Henry David ThoreauOne half who graduate from college never read another book.~ Herbert True
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you,and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~ Yosida KenkoThe books that help you most are those which make you think that most.The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading;but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship ofthought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.~ Theodore ParkerIt is not enough to simply teach children to read;we have to give them something worth reading.Something that will stretch their imaginations-something that will help them make sense of their own livesand encourage them to reach out toward peoplewhose lives are quite different from their own.~ Katherine Paterson Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering,perpetuating and transmitting thought.~ Henry C. Rogers Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what?All you have to do is go to the library. ~ Jim Rohn The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature,to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. ~ Eleanor RooseveltAll books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.~ John RuskinA library is thought in cold storage. ~ Herbert Samuel The more that you read,the more things you will know.The more that you learn,the more places you'll go.~ Dr. SeussMore Quotes
