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Quote DB :: Reading Search in this category Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum." Elbert Hubbard "Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon "Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself." Marcel Proust "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book." Marcel Proust "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all." Abraham Lincoln "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." Kurt Vonnegut "This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read." Winston Churchill "The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." Oliver Wendell Holmes "But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." Oscar Wilde "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." Robertson Davies "A room without books is like a body without a soul." GK Chesterton "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson "The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."" Oliver Wendell Holmes "A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever." Martin Farquhar Tupper "There is no friend as loyal as a book." Ernest Hemingway "Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own." Mark Twain "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." Dorothy Parker "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Benjamin Franklin "Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." Charles Caleb Colton 1 2 Next >> Browse Reading quotes by Author: Abraham Lincoln Ambrose Bierce Benjamin Franklin Charles Caleb Colton Christopher Morley Dorothy Parker Edmund Burke Elbert Hubbard Ernest Hemingway Francis Bacon GK Chesterton Kurt Vonnegut Marcel Proust Mark Twain Martin Farquhar Tupper Michael Votto Oliver Wendell Holmes Oscar Wilde Robert Frost Robertson Davies Thomas Jefferson T.S. Eliot Victor Hugo Winston Churchill

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