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?