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A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
Author: Jeremy Collier
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Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Author: Jeremy Collier
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Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Author: Jesse Lee Bennett
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There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
Author: Jim Fiebig
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To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.
Author: John Aikin
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
Author: John LeCarre
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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
Author: John Lyly
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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
Author: John Ruskin
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O for a Booke and a shdie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out; With the grene leaves whisp’ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about. Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde; For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.
Author: John Wilson
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations – such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Author: Kenko Yoshida
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I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, – who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, – and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes – each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs – quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.
Author: Laurence Sterne
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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917
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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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The mere brute pleasure of reading – the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Author: Marina Tsvetaeva
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Author: Mark Twain, attributed
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Author: P.J. O’Rourke
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