| 1 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
| 2 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 3 |
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story |
| 4 |
A room without books is like a body without a soul |
| 5 |
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own |
| 6 |
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 7 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 8 |
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary |
| 9 |
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 10 |
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 11 |
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read |
| 12 |
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know |
| 13 |
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me |
| 14 |
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend |
| 15 |
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading |
| 16 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 17 |
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free |
| 18 |
My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
| 19 |
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world |
| 20 |
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors |
| 21 |
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 22 |
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours |
| 23 |
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere |
| 24 |
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 25 |
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go |
| 26 |
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world |
| 27 |
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall |
| 28 |
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time |
| 29 |
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 30 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 31 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 32 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 33 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 34 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 35 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 36 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 37 |
Books are the mirrors of the soul |
| 38 |
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others |
| 39 |
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore |
| 40 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 41 |
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet |
| 42 |
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world |
| 43 |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 44 |
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned |
| 45 |
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change |
| 46 |
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads |
| 47 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 48 |
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
| 49 |
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed |
| 50 |
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading |
