Read - Quotes
Outside of a dog, a book is a man`s best friend. Inside of a dog it`s too dark to read.
Lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
If you`re not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown-up. Even worse, you`ll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books. I`ve met a lot of people, I`ve read a lot of books, and that`s the absolute truth.
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way incase I die, before I finish, I know how it ends.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.