Reading Quotes 20
1. Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
-P. J. O'Rourke-
2. A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Cicero-
3. The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
-Voltaire-
4. A book that is shut is but a block.
-Thomas Fuller-
5. Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
-Evan Esar-
6. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
-Henry David Thoreau-
7. You can cover a great deal of country in books.
-Andrew Lang-
8. Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
-Arnold Lobel-
9. Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
-Ralph Novak-
10. 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 by the latter.
-Paxton Hood-
11. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
-Salman Rushdie-
12. Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
-Henry Ward Beecher-
13. I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
-Charles De Secondat-
14. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
15. Read much, but not many books.
-Benjamin Franklin-
16. The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
-Henry James-
17. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
-Sir Francis Bacon-
18. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-Sir Richard Steele-
19. When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
-Marie de Sevigne-
20. It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
-Dame Rose Macaulay-
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