Read my lips. Here are some proverbs and quotes about reading.
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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. That's why I read so much.
(unknown author)Source: Game of Thrones
Quoted: Tyrion Lannister
Believe nothing,
No matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.
Gautama BuddhaNo matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.
Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.
Kim LehmanI declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho MarxI kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Robert Louis StevensonI read it in a book.
Samwell TarlyIf you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Mark TwainIf you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Albert EinsteinLife is too short to read a bad book.
James JoyceMake it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard ShawMy personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith SitwellProofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Dave BarryReading ... a vacation for the mind.
Dave BarryReading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Mason CooleyReading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
Lucy Maud MontgomerySource: Anne of Green Gables
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold BloomSince I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
Zoe SuggStatler: You think this show is educational?
Waldorf: Yes it will drive people to read books.
(unknown author)Waldorf: Yes it will drive people to read books.
Source: The Muppet Show
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin TofflerThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint AugustineThe worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Joseph JoubertTo read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Jean-Paul SartreWe farmers ought not to have much time for reading; yet somehow one can't help it.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Cranford
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman