Read Quotes - page 3

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? (Philip Gilbert Hamerton)
To write is to read one's own self. View quote
Max Frisch
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. View quote
William Hazlitt
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. View quote
William Hazlitt
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. View quote
George Eliot
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (G. M. Trevelyan)
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. View quote
George Carlin
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. View quote
M. H. Abrams
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. View quote
Montesquieu
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. View quote
Edmund Burke
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. View quote
Gore Vidal
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. View quote
Norman Mailer
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony. View quote
Lou Reed
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. (Emil Cioran)
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. View quote
Lily Tomlin
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. View quote
A. J. Liebling