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!Thoughts on Books and Reading!
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.~Charles W. Eliot
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.~Groucho Marx
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.~Mark Twain
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.~Jessamyn West
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 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
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
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Medicine for the soul.~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.~E.P. Whipple
“Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.~François Mauriac
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.~Edmund Burke
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.~André Maurois
A house without books is like a room without windows.~Heinrich Mann
Never judge a book by its movie.~J.W. Eagan
The wise man reads both books and life itself.~Lin Yutang
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.~Strickland Gillilan (Thanks, Laurel)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.~W. Somerset Maugham
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.~Walter Pater
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.~Henry David Thoreau
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.~Chinese Saying
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.~Jeremy Collier
It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.~Sutton Elbert Griggs
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.~G.E. Woodberry
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.~William Styron
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.~Jeremy Collier
