Read below what some famous and not so famous people have to say about books and or reading. See if you agree or disagree...
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
~ Dawn Adams ~
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~ Joseph Addison ~
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Mason Cooley
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
~ Mortimer J. Adler ~
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. (1873)
~ Louisa May Alcott ~
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
~ Maya Angelou ~
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Beware of the man of one book.
~ Thomas Aquinas ~
