I will present quotations about reading on this page. If you have any of your own please pass them on to me at the Hobo Tomes e-mail address. Most of these first few are from The Forbes Book of Business Quotations published in 1997. Enjoy.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine passionate love for reading. Rufus Choate
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. Benjamin Franklin
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Richard Steele
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Jeremy Collyer
Letters have the power to convey to us silently the sayings of those who are absent. Isidore of Saville
A little humour from the cartoon Maxine: Books... a nice change from reading prescription labels.
"to acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life" W. Somerset Maugham
The pen is a sceptre, but how scarce kings are among writers! Kahlil Gibran
