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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. (Carlo Goldoni)
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. View quote
Alvin Toffler
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. View quote
Henny Youngman
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. View quote
Groucho Marx
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. View quote
Frank Zappa
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. View quote
Emil Cioran
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. View quote
Mark Twain
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. View quote
David Ogilvy
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. View quote
Cyril Connolly
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. View quote
Woody Allen
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. View quote
Christopher Morley
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. View quote
Groucho Marx
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. View quote
William Hazlitt
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. View quote
Gore Vidal
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. (Oscar Wilde)
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough. View quote
Irwin Shaw
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. View quote
Clarence Darrow
All I know is just what I read in the papers. View quote
Will Rogers
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. View quote
Robertson Davies