Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading — Thomas Hardy
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things. — Bill Gates
If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The air aint foreign, then it aint worth breating, if we can understand it then it aint worth reading, if its too cold I'll fly… — Lupe Fiasco
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading… — Herbert Hoover
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own — Arthur Schopenhauer
With religions it's crucial, when reading labels, to verify whether or not the content is in each jar. — Vanna Bonta
If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin
If it is true that every Cuban knows how to read and write, it is likewise true that every Cuban has nothing to read and… — Jacobo Timerman
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Easy reading is damned hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and… — James Allen
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love… — Francois Fenelon
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading — Rufus Choate
Reading maketh a full man. — Francis Bacon Sr
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the… — Malcolm X
I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. — Spike Milligan
They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the entire Vietnamese War in the crowds here. — Unknown Author
A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky. — Quran
The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality...… — Irving Babbitt

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