Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write… — Groucho Marx
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H. L. Mencken
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H. L. Mencken
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. — Jerome K. Jerome
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. — P.J. O'Rourke
Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset. — Victor Borge
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. — W. Somerset Maugham
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce… — Linus Torvalds
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent… — Shimon Peres
Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God. — Wallace D. Wattles
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading. — Thomas Jefferson
Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as… — Tim Ferriss
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the… — Donald Cram
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire
Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely. — Natalie Babbitt
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. — Mark McCormack
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and,… — Laurence Sterne
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as… — Samuel Johnson
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I… — Francis Collins
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of… — Luis Walter Alvarez
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. — Roald Dahl
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift

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