Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

I read part of it all the way through. - Samuel Goldwyn

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

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

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

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen

When you read the riot act, be prepared to enforce it. - Saying

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

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. - Jane Smiley

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. - C S Lewis

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. - David Sedaris

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Markus Herz

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

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

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

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

There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot on treasure island. - Walt Disney

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. - Leo Burnett

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

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow. - John Wesley

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

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

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

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

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

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it. - Brigham Young

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

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

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

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

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey