What are some of your favorite quotes about reading and/or books?

For instance, here are some that I like:

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~ Joseph Addison ~

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
~ Jorge Luis Borges ~

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
~ Rita Mae Brown ~

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
~ Emilie Buchwald ~

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
~ Chinese proverb ~

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

When I get a little money, I buy books;
and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
~ Desiderius Erasmus ~

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
~ Jean Fritz ~

I must say that I find television very educational.
The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
~ Groucho Marx ~

Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
~ Groucho Marx ~

I like this one........

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world. -Richard Baxter

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life (Milton, Areopagitica).

Books are for company the best friends, in doubts counsellors, in damps comforters, ... the busy man's recreation, the opiate of idle weariness, the mind's best ordinary, Nature's garden and seed-plot of immortality (Richard Whitlock, Zootomia).

Books - those miraculous memories of high thoughts and golden moods; those magical shells, tremulous with the secrets of the ocean of life; those love-letters that pass from hand to hand of a thousand lovers that never meet; those honeycombs of dreams; those orchards of knowledge; those still beating hearts of the noble dead; those mysterious signals that beckon along the darksome pathways of the past; voices through which the myriad lispings of the earth find perfect speech; prisms of beauty; urns stored with all the sweets of all the summers of time; immortal nightingales that sing for ever to the rose of life (Richard Le Gallienne, Prose Fancies).

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever (Martin Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy)

This books can do, nor this alone - they give
New views to life, and teach us how to live;
They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise;
Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise;.
Their aid they yield to all: they never shun
The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone. (George Crabbe, The Library)

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider (Francis Bacon, Of Studies).

La lecture de tous bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honnêtes gens des siècles passés qui en ont été les auteurs, et même une conversation étudiée, en laquelle ils ne nous découvrent que les meilleures de leurs pensées [René Descartes, Discours de la Méthode)

Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend; Inside of a dog it's too dark to read! - Groucho Marx

I believe it was Mark Twain who said that "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves" E M Forster

"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody" ~ Oscar Wilde

"The public library was my higher learning", Ray Bradbury Mr. Bradbury never attended college but was self-educated at his public library. Anybody who has ever read his works knows that no modern author, to my mind, has such a beautiful way to putting things.