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

“When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.”
-Desiderius Erasmus

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

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
-Confucius

“A man is known by the books he reads.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
-Richard Steele

“Time is the only capital that nay human being has, and the one thing that he can’t afford to lose.”
-Thomas Edison

“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
-Maud Casey

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
-Will Durant

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
-Harry S. Truman

“To teach is to learn twice.”
-Joseph Joubert

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
-Mark Twain