1. "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
- Richard Steele (1672-1729), Irish writer
2. "No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so
lasting."
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), British author/critic
3. "The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another
who shares the same books."
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923), short story writer and poet
4. "However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what
good will they do you if you do not act upon them?"
- Buddha (563-483 BC), founder of Buddhism
5. "Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read
them at all."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), essayist
6. "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and
once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning
light, at noon and by moonlight."
- Robertson Davies (1913-1995), Canadian novelist
7. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested."
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English essayist
8. "I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king
without the desire to read."
- Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859), historian
9. "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be
thrown with great force."
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), screenwriter
10. "A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us."
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924), novelist
11. "There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who
wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English essayist and novelist
12. "Any book that helps a child to form the habit of reading, to make
reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
- Maya Angelou (1928-), American poet
From alt.quotations
