Quotes of Reading - somelinesforyou

“ I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

“ In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ”

- Ezra

“ Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ”

- John Locke

“ It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. ”

- Arthur James Balfour

“ If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting. ”

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“ I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Everything in this book may be wrong. ”

- Richard Bach

“ There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. ”

- Walt Disney

“ When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. ”

- Harold Sydney Geneen

“ I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ All books are either dreams or swords. ”

- Amy Lowell

“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books, is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. ”

- Lord Byron

“ A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. ”

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

“ The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. ”

- John Morely

“ The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read. ”

- Unknown

“ If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ”

- Oscar Wilde
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