However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche