Tuesday, March 1, 2022

31 Quotes related to reading this March

 31 Quotes related to reading this March

Reading makes us knowledgeable, empathetic and improves our imagination. Here are some reading related quotes for this month:

1.    “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” - Napoléon Bonaparte



 “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” - Italo Calvino


1“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” - Jorge Luis Borges

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” - Mary Schmich


“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” - Mary Wortley Montagu


“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” - Emma Thompson

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” - Roald Dahl


“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.” - Aphra Behn

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” - W. Somerset Maugham


“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” - Bill Watterson


“These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” - Roald Dahl


“I guess there are never enough books.” - John Steinbeck


“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.” - Voltaire



“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” - J.K. Rowling



“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” - Anne Herbert


“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” - Rainer Maria Rilke



“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” - Emilie Buchwald



“I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.” - H.P. Lovecraft

“Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.” - E.B. White


“Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.” - David Levithan


“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx



“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.” - Albert Einstein


“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.” - Patrick Rothfuss


“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away.” - Emily Dickinson


“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.” - Edgar Allan Poe



“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” - Henry Ward Beecher


“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.” – John Cheever


“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” - Joseph Brodsky


“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” - Maya Angelou



“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” - Jane Austen


“Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic.” - Carl Sagan



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