Quotes about Reading (It’s not as boring as it sounds.)
I love going to this web page and browsing the different quotes. Historical figures can sometimes be funny… in a dry, kinda overly confident way. ![]()
Here are a few of my faves:
“Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep,
for your habits and character will be as much
influenced by the former as the latter.”
— ~ Paxton Hood~
The printing press is either the greatest blessing
or the greatest curse of modern times,
sometimes one forgets which it is.
~ Sir James M. Barrie ~
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book;
a good head cannot read amiss:
in every book he finds passages which seem confidences
or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. ”
— ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
“Books give not wisdom where none was before.
But where some is, there reading makes it more.
”
— ~ John Harington ~
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature,
to those who really like to study people,
is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents.
This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland
and other favorites of the nursery.
~ A. S. W. Rosenbach ~
What are some of your favorite Quotes about Reading?
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August 28th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
There’s one by one of the Marx brothers that’s something like “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
September 1st, 2009 at 5:57 am
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September 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I quote so many things I see or hear my friends make fun of me. I don’t know any about reading off the top of my head, but I’m sure I’ve written some down somewhere…
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Oh oh oh! I remembered one, my favorite, by Jane Austen: “Anyone, be it a gentleman or a lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
October 1st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
hmm. . . I have so many quotes I spout of randomly throughout the day but sadly I can’t think of one at the moment right now. . . =( well, there is one I kinda like that says if there’s a book you despertley would like to read but has not been written yet then you simply must write it.