Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

We read to know we're not alone. - William Nicholson

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

We can close the books on infectious diseases. - William H Stewart

Preface: That part of a book which is never read. - Unknown

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

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. - American Proverb

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

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

My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Charles de Montesquieu

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

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

Learn to say 'no.' It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. - Charles Spurgeon

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

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. - Cosimo de Medici

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G M Trevelyan

The Bible, if ya read it you'd know. It's right in the beginning there, in the Book of Generous. - Archie Bunker

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

Book: A depository of knowledge which a student will try to stay awake long enough to read the night before finals - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature. People, for example, who do not read. - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it. - William Osler

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

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. - David Viscott

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

To read means to obtain meaning from words, and legibility is that quality which enables words to be read easily, quickly, and accurately. - John C Tarr

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight. I never forgot it. - Stephen King

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C S Lewis

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater