There is no thief worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. – Bern Williams
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. – Stéphane Mallarmé
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. – Jim Fiebig
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard
Christie loved books… This amusement lightened many heavy hours, peopled the silent house with troops of friends, and, for a time, was the joy of her life. – Louisa May Alcott, “Servant,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain
A book is to me like a hat or coat — a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off. – Charles B. Fairbanks
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. – Author unknown
Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. – Bulstrode Whitlock
Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
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. – Jesse Lee Bennett
Book lovers never go to bed alone. – Author unknown
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. – Washington Irving
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman
Classics are not classics because hoary with age — they are the steel balls which have worn down mountains but remained unchanged in the mill of time. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
