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James Burke

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.

Joseph Brodsky

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Jim Fiebig

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Henry James

He had dropped upon a seat halfway down the nave and, again in the museum mood, was trying with head thrown back and eyes aloft, to reconstitute a past, to reduce it in fact to the convenient terms of Victor Hugo, whom, a few days before, giving the rein

Charles Kingsley

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort

Henry Miller

A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

W. Somerset Maugham

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside

John Steinbeck

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers

Will Rogers

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Vladimir Nabokov

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

Stendhal

A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror sh

Rabindranath Tagore

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant

Henry David Thoreau

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must lay it down and commence living on its hint. . . . What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Virginia Woolf

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few

Steven Wright

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

C.S. Lewis

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere ??“ ???Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,???

James Burke

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.

Danish proverb

Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it.

G. Norman Collie

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

Anon.

Error reading FAT record. Try the SKINNY one (YN)

Benjamin Disraeli

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Guy	Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Steven Wright

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Charles De Secondat

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Chinese Proverb

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

Rodney Dangerfield

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper 4 times - 3 while I was reading it

Anon.

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk

Will Rogers

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.

Joseph Brodsky

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Hugh McColl, Jr.

Without question, reading has been the foundation of whatever success I've had in my life.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

Sir John Harington

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Steven Wright

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem abouteverything.

Lady Reading

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Edith Sitwell

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Moses Hadas

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Thornton

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Harry S Truman

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Richard Hughes

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

W. Somerset Maugham

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Ray Douglas Bradbury

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Christopher Morley

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 continually be part of unanimity.

Thomas a Kempis

Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Steven Wright

I went to the eye doctor and found out I needed glasses for reading. So, I got some flip-up contact lenses.

Rolfe Neill

Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.

Woody Allen

I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

David A. Cronin

I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one.

Henry G. Strauss

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

Rodney Dangerfield

I had a lot of pimples too. One day I fell asleep in the library. I woke up and a blind man was reading my face.

Rodney Dangerfield

I had a lot of pimples too. One day I fell asleep in a library. I woke up and a blind man was reading my face.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Julius Henry Marx

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

POPE: _Dunciad,_ Bk. iv., Line 249.

Stuff the head With all such reading as was never read: For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're a cowboy, and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.

Gore Vidal

Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.

SHERIDAN: _Clio's Prot._

You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curs'd hard reading.

Tommy Boy

Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take tylenol for any headaches-midol for any cramps.

Quentin Crisp

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

Ezra Pound

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.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

"I'm reading, I don't know what I'm reading!" Kim

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Reading musses up my mind.

Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom

I'm reading this by the warm glow of my dog.

End of Message - Stop reading.

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Who is Gen Failure & why is he reading my hard drive?

Why are you wasting time reading taglines?

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

General Failure reading John Dvorak

General stupidity error reading drive C:

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Error reading REALITY.SYS - Universe Halted

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

'Ya ever caught yourself reading taglines and skipping messages?

"I was reading the dictionary - I thought it was a poem about everything

'Ya ever caught yourself reading taglines and skipping meSLMRT

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.

General Failure reading drive A: Please remove your fist

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

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.

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

The Bible is God's letter to Christians. If you don't understand it, that's what you get for reading other people's mail.

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.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.