Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. - Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Not all the news that's fit to print is fit to read. - Unknown

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? - Steven Wright

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - C S Lewis

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. - Aneurin Bevan

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. - John Green

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. - P.J. O'Rourke

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? - Bette Midler

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

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

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller

I wonder why you can always read a Doctor's bill but you can never read his prescription. - Finley Peter Dunne

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. - Finley Peter Dunne

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

I took a speed reading course and read "War and Peace" in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen

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

The rasp of the respirator's filter were about as comforting as Darth Vader reading a bedtime story. - Andy McNab

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. - Martin Luther

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. - Oscar Wilde

Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson

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

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

Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. - Ben Okri

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. - Groucho Marx

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" - Joseph Heller

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. - Iyanla Vanzant

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow