Nothing Can Compete With A Good Book

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

What is reading, but silent conversation. - Walter Savage Landor

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Warren Buffet

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. - J.D. Salinger

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

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

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

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. - Mary Schmich

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

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

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. - Learned Hand

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

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. - Winston Churchill

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. - Leo Burnett

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

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. - George Burns

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. - Cosimo de Medici

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

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

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 was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover. - Julie Kagawa

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. - John Updike

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. - Evita Peron

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

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. - Ben Okri

Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. - Toni Sorenson

If you think that praise is due, now's the time to show it, 'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead. - Unknown

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich