Body Quote by Sydney Smith

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

— Andrew Carnegie

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few,…

— Richard Baxter

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

— Anthony Bourdain

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

— Richard Baxter

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in…

— Isaac Watts

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

— Pope John XXIII

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

— Jeremy Collier

“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the food is…

— Anthony Mary Claret

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

— William Makepeace Thackeray