Great Reading Quotes

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

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

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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.

It 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 lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

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

Love of books is the best of all.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

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

The more you read, the more things you will know.

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

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

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

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

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.