A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
- Jerry Seinfeld


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


A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
- Mark Twain


Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain


Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson


Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln


I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.
- Kurt Cobain


I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson


My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
- Mark Twain


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


Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein


The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain


The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln


There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
- Walt Disney


You cannot open a book without learning something.
- Confucius


You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mahatma Gandhi


You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
- George_W Bush