Reading Quotes

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. (Henny Youngman)
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. View quote
Gloria Steinem
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. View quote
Steve Jobs
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. View quote
Woody Allen
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
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
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. View quote
Groucho Marx
He that loves reading has everything within his reach. View quote
William Godwin
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. (Edith Sitwell)
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. View quote
Ben Hecht
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. View quote
Richard Steele
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Horace Mann
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. View quote
Ezra Pound
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. View quote
Steven Wright
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. View quote
Joseph Addison
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. View quote
William Penn
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. (B. F. Skinner)
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. View quote
Francis Bacon
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. View quote
Vera Brittain