“ A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits. ”
- Edith Sitwell- Copy
- 264
“ What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 311
“ There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? ”
- William Hart Coleridge- Copy
- 676
“ The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. ”
- Peace Pilgrim- Copy
- 2.5K
“ You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read. ”
- Dr. Seuss- Copy
- 882
“ Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
- 978
“ To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. ”
- William Osler- Copy
- 2K
“ If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. ”
- Haruki Murakami- Copy
- 493
“ Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I found that the clergy did not understand their own book. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
- 3.7K
“ My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine — everybody drinks water. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 785
“ Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can. ”
- Helen Gurley Brown- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage; Be justly warm'd with your own native rage. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
- 2.7K
“ In the final analysis, the bottom line for everybody to remember here is this is not going to be, you know, an Iraqi version of America. ”
- Dick Cheney- Copy
- 3K
“ I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed — and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. ”
- John Dawkins- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 155
“ They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. ”
- Henry Burton- Copy
- 549
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