Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. - Will Rogers

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. - William Ellery Channing

When you read the riot act, be prepared to enforce it. - Saying

People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln

Not all the news that's fit to print is fit to read. - Unknown

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain

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

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. - Mason Cooley

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. - Jamie Lee Curtis

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. - C S Lewis

A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them. - William Hazlitt

I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. - Heinrich Neine

I love sushi, though I just read something about how you shouldn't eat sushi more than once a week. - Jacqueline Obradors

I would have brung you flowers too, but I read in a magazine that they suck up all the carbon monoxygen. - Archie Bunker

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. - Becca Fitzpatrick

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. - Martin Luther

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

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. - Rodney Dangerfield

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. - Groucho Marx

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" - Joseph Heller

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. - C S Lewis

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater