Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P.J. O'Rourke
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Mark Twain
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Be awesome! Be a book nut!
Dr. Seuss
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
