(2543 quotes found)
“The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.”
Vernon Lee
“A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism”
Donald Morgan
“Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.”
John Witherspoon
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
Louis L'Amour
“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare
“whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.”
Eve Merriam
“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”
Andre Gide
