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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Written by Winston Churchill
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
Written by Elizabeth Taylor
I read part of it all the way through.
Written by Samuel Goldwyn
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Written by Lily Tomlin
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Written by Anthony Burgess
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Written by Mark Twain
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Written by A. J. Liebling
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Written by Steven Wright
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Written by Will Rogers
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Written by Clarence Darrow
Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
Written by Howard Stern
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Written by Will Rogers
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Written by Gore Vidal
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Written by Mary Schmich
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Written by Edith Wharton
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Written by Kin Hubbard
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Written by Cyril Connolly
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
Written by Elizabeth Drew
Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
Written by Ray Stannard Baker
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Written by John Burroughs
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Written by Christopher Morley
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
Written by J. Paul Getty
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Written by William Hazlitt
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Written by Samuel Johnson
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Written by Groucho Marx
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
Written by Sinclair Lewis
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
Written by William Hazlitt
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
Written by Dave Barry

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