Quotes on Books And Reading

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

No two persons ever read the same book.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

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

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Once upon a time' lasts forever.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The man who never reads lives only one.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.