Reading Quotes

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Women are Books, and Men the Readers be,
Who sometimes in those Books Erratas see;
Yet oft the Reader’s raptur’d with each Line,
Fair Print and Paper fraught with Sense divine;
Tho’ some neglectful seldom care to read,
And faithful Wives no more than Bibles heed.
Are Women Books? says Hodge, then would mine were
An Almanack, to change her every Year.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up.

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

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

We read to know that we are not alone.

We read fine things, but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.