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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
- Mencken, H. L.
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Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
Rhys, Jean

2.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Rosten, Leo

3.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

4.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
Miller, Henry

5.
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Swartz, J.

6.
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Bury, Richard De

7.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

8.
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Wilde, Oscar

9.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Lawrence, D. H.

10.
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.
What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
Mccay, James T.

12.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac

13.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas

14.
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.
Steele, Sir Richard

15.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John

16.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.
Hood, Paxton

17.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Morely, John

18.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Woolf, Virginia

19.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Rohn, Jim

20.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Bachelard, Gaston

21.
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao

22.
Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.
Peters, Thomas J.

23.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Proverb, American

24.
You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

25.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Eco, Umberto

27.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Mccosh

28.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine

29.
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
Davies, Robertson

30.
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
Styron, William

31.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Hope, Anthony

32.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

33.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.

34.
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
Milton, John

35.
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.
Disney, Walt

36.
Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
Faulkner, William

37.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

38.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn

39.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Rostand, Jean

40.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus, Desiderius

41.
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David

43.
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Benson, Arthur Christopher

44.
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
Johnson

45.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Townsend, Atwood H.

46.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

47.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses

48.
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
Sterne, Laurence

49.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John

50.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Aubrey, John


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