Reading Quotes and Sayings
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
- George R.R. Martin
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
- George R.R. Martin
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
- Margaret Fuller
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
- William Hazlitt
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
- Joseph Brodsky
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
- Fran Lebowitz
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
- Bertrand Russell
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
- W. Somerset Maugham
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
- C.S. Lewis
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read.
- Virginia Woolf
Reading… a vacation for the mind….
- Dave Barry
We read to know that we are not alone.
- William Nicholson
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Our high respect for a well- read man is praise enough of literature.
Reading makes a man full.
- Francis Bacon
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
- Robert Frost