Quotes About Joys Of Reading

#1. The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike.

Marsden Hartley

#2. The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

Ben Jonson

#4. Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

Irving Stone

#5. One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Ishmael Reed

#6. At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

Khaled Hosseini

#7. State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.

Ian Bremmer

#8. To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.

Maya Angelou

#9. Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.

Ernie J Zelinski

#10. The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you'll find.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Stephen Mangan

#12. I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

Jeremy Northam

#13. Rumors, stories ... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years' ... You know there's a different story every day.

Marilyn Manson

#14. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to
mankind, which are delivered down from generation to
generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

Joseph Addison

#15. He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

James Salter

#16. Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

Benedict Cumberbatch