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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
— Jane Austen
“People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ”
— Stendhal
“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.”
— Moliere
“How well he's read, to reason against reading! ”
— William Shakespeare
“The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it. ”
— Lil Wayne
“I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.”
— Christina Aguilera
“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. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
— Maya Angelou
“The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.”
— Mick Jagger
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
— John Locke
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
— John Locke
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
— Clive Staples Lewis
“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”
— Groucho Marx
“If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.”
— Barack Obama
“We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”
— Henry Miller
“I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.”
— Henry Miller
“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.”
— Horace Mann
“Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.”
— James Madison
“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.”
— Babe Ruth
“I spend a lot of time reading.”
— Bill Gates
“Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.”
— Bill Gates
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
— Rene Descartes
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
— Francis Bacon
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.”
— Charles Stanley
“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.”
— Andy Warhol
“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”
— George Washington Carver
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
— Joseph Addison
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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