Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

We read to know we're not alone. - William Nicholson

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

Every man is a volume, if you how to read him. - W. E. Channing

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. - Jane Smiley

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. - American Proverb

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

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it. - Anderson Cooper

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

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies. - Wally Amos

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

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. - John Barrymore

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. - Robin Sharma

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Charles de Montesquieu

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

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C S Lewis

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger

You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy

It's not the cost of the book. It's what it may cost you not to buy and read it. - Jim Rohn

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon

I wonder why you can always read a Doctor's bill but you can never read his prescription. - Finley Peter Dunne

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

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

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. - Milla Jovovich

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight. I never forgot it. - Stephen King

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

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson