Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't read books. I write them. - Henry Kissinger

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. - J.D. Salinger

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies. - Wally Amos

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

Life is a storybook, and those who do not travel only read but a page. - Ravi Zacharias

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. - John Barrymore

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. - C S Lewis

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf

I got something important here to read and sign and I gotta consecrate on that. - Archie Bunker

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. - Billy Graham

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger

You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. - Unknown

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. - Charles Scribner

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read an write, everyone would limp and stutter. - Mark Twain

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love sushi, though I just read something about how you shouldn't eat sushi more than once a week. - Jacqueline Obradors

I would have brung you flowers too, but I read in a magazine that they suck up all the carbon monoxygen. - Archie Bunker

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H L Mencken

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. - Tallulah Bankhead

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. - Toni Sorenson

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. - C S Lewis

If you think that praise is due, now's the time to show it, 'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead. - Unknown

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. - Raymond Chandler