Great Quotes About Books and Reading

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.     ~Dawn Adams~ Reading is the basic tool in the living of a good life.     ~Mortimer J. Adler~ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.     ~Gaston Bachelard~ The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.     ~Sir James M. Barrie~ A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.     ~Henry Ward Breecher~ Books are not men and yet they stay alive.     ~Stephen Vincent Benet~

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.     ~Joseph Brodsky~ A room without books is like a body without a soul.     ~Marcus T. Cicero~ The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.     ~Frank Crane~ If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-A-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.     ~Robertson Davies~ Never judge a book by its movie.     ~J. W. Eagan~ Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.     ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid  at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.     ~Francois FeNelon~ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.     ~W. Fusselman~ The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.     ~Elizabeth Hardwick~ I am a part of everything that I have read.     ~John Kieran~ Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.     ~Harper Lee~ There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most divertingand stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.     ~H.L. Mencken~ There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.     ~Walt Disney~ Books may well be the only true magic.     ~Alice Hoffman~ Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read.     ~Groucho Marx~ I must say that i find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.     ~Groucho Marx~

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