Famous books-reading quotations

   The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
 ~ by Andrew Ross

   Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
 ~ by François Mauriac

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
 ~ by Henry Ward Beecher

   Medicine for the soul.
 ~ by Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

   What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.
 ~ by G.E. Woodberry

   From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.
 ~ by Helen E. Haines

   It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
 ~ by Oscar Wilde

   He fed his spirit with the bread of books.
 ~ by Edwin Markham

   To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.
 ~ by John Aikin

   Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
 ~ by William Ewart Gladstone

   How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it!
 ~ by J.N. Larned

   'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870

   Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.
 ~ by Judah Ibn Tibbon

   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 us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
 ~ by Charles Kingsley

   Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
 ~ by John Lyly

   A dirty book is rarely dusty.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
 ~ by Sutton Elbert Griggs

   A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own.
 ~ by Douglas Jerrold

   There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.
 ~ by Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

   This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
 ~ by Logan Pearsall Smith

   Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
 ~ by Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710

   There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
 ~ by G.K. Chesterton

   Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
 ~ by Augustus Hare

   The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
 ~ by Voltaire

   The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
 ~ by Washington Irving



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