| 51 |
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 52 |
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries |
| 53 |
My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
| 54 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 55 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 56 |
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly |
| 57 |
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 58 |
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read |
| 59 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 60 |
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors |
| 61 |
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 |
| 62 |
Books are a uniquely portable magic |
| 63 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
| 64 |
Books are the mirrors of the soul |
| 65 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 66 |
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 |
| 67 |
A room without books is like a body without a soul |
| 68 |
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 69 |
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 70 |
Some books leave us free and some books make us free |
| 71 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 72 |
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while |
| 73 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 74 |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 75 |
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live |
| 76 |
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere |
| 77 |
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading |
| 78 |
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours |
| 79 |
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you |
| 80 |
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself |
| 81 |
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go |
| 82 |
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
| 83 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 84 |
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
| 85 |
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better |
| 86 |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
| 87 |
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it |
| 88 |
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
| 89 |
Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities |
| 90 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 91 |
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read |
| 92 |
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
| 93 |
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents |
| 94 |
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island |
| 95 |
A good book is an event in my life |
| 96 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 97 |
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads |
| 98 |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 99 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 100 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
