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)
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. (Paul Sweeney)
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without
the desire to read. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. (Doris Lessing)
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (Mark Twain)
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. (Ashleigh Brilliant)
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. (Confucius)
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... (Lawrence Clark Powell)
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. (William Styron)
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many of them can get through to you. (Mortimer Adler)
With all the things I know, one could write a book...Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don't know, one could create a library. (Sacha Guitry)
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. (Jan Morris)
The greatest university of all is the collection of books. (Thomas Carlyle)