Reading Quotes
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober
Bill Veeck
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter.
Mortimer Adler
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading
Rufus Choate
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
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Jean Rhys
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
Charles Scribner, Jr.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.
Edgar Allan Poe
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S Truman
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Worley Montagu
Reading is a lot like physical exercise. Reading is a workout for the brain.
Steve Pavlina
