Reading Quotes

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Moses Hadas

Experience, Knowledge, Greatest

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman

Read, Gave, Drinking

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Time, Remember, Few

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Joseph Addison

Life, Good, Living

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
Donald Cargill

Farewell, Friends, Believing

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner

Love, Great, Books

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison

Mind, Body, Exercise

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Alice Walker

Sometimes, Write, Longer

What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes

Lost, Brain, Him

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
Mason Cooley

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn

Mind, Reason, Natural

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

Good, Fill, Leisure

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
Stendhal

Made, Cannot, Story

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere

Work, Famous, Book

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
Ben Stein

Work, Finance, Fight

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Spike Milligan

Thought, Why, Mine

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Mason Cooley

Past, Book, Same

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
Charles Stanley

Time, Today, Important

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.
Max Muller

Morning, True, Simple

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
George Muller

Give, Enjoy, Prayer

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle

Life, Made, Ask

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Words, Fact, Read

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Enough, Impossible, Times

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.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Live, Black, Makes

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
William Shatner

Enjoyed, Classic, Isaac

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Lord Chesterfield

Pleasure, Cow, Brute

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life, Women, Him

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch

Love, Women, Men

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
Dave Barry

Good, Crazy, Chance

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