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,Gautama Buddha
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.
Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.Kim Lehman
I 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 Austen
Source: 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 Marx
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.Robert Louis Stevenson
I read it in a book.Samwell Tarly
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.Mark Twain
If 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 Einstein
Life is too short to read a bad book.James Joyce
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.George Bernard Shaw
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.Dave Barry
Reading ... a vacation for the mind.Dave Barry
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.Mason Cooley
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.Lucy Maud Montgomery
Source: Anne of Green Gables
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom
Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.Zoe Sugg
Statler: You think this show is educational?(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 Toffler
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.Saint Augustine
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.Joseph Joubert
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.Jean-Paul Sartre
We farmers ought not to have much time for reading; yet somehow one can't help it.Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Cranford
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.Henny Youngman
