Quotes about reading

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

Josh Billings

Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Marianne Williamson

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.

Pablo Picasso

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

Steven Wright

If I read the small print, and I see that what I love to taste has pantonaponamene or fake smeinlioaimine, then I have to hide in my room when I eat it. I’m still gonna eat it, it’s just gonna be ‘Don’t come in here!’

Bill Cosby

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

All I really want to do is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Harry S. Truman