Reading Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist
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) British author
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875) English writer
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, critic
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn (1644-1718) religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania
A reading machine, always wound up and going, He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American poet, editor
‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
Readers are of two sorts: one who carefully goes through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him.
Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) English playwright, humorist
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself or, like the ambitious, for instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French novelist
A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (17094784) English author, lexicographer
Education . . . has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1961) British historian
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author
I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It’s about Russia.
Woody Allen (b. 1935) American filmmaker
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
Henry James (1843-1916) American novelist
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon (c. 1633-1685) Irish author
