Reading Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old reading quotes, reading sayings, and reading proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Reading is like permitting a man who sits in a train facing back to talk a long time. Evan Esar
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. W.H. Auden
A house without books is like a room without windows. Horace Mann
Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Thoreau
Dies slowly the one who does not travel, does not read, does not listen to music, who is not at peace with himself. Vincenzo Berghella
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. Saint Augustine
A man should never read his reviewers, or be too curious about it. John Little
The value of an education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from books. Albert Einstein
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. Ben Hecht
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. Warren Chappell
Read, everyday, something no one else is reading. Paul Vixie
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams
Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. Bible
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. Charles Lamb
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. Chinese Saying
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. Chinese Proverb
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. Daniel J. Boorstin
A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that. B.A. Billingsly
A blessed companion is a book, a book that. fitly chosen, is a life long friend, a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own. Douglas Jerrold
A book is a mirror: when a monkey in, no apostle can look out. Georg C. Lichtenberg
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. Geoge Robert Gissing
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. Edward Robert B. Lytton
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
No man can be friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.' Helen Exley
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. Heinrich Heine
The wise man reads both books and life itself. Lin Yutang
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. Jeremy Collier
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs
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