quotes about reading

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything - except his own mistakes. ~Author Unknown



Hope is grief's best music. ~Author Unknown



Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face. ~VP Pappy



I named my kitten Rose - fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns. ~Astrid Alauda



Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ~William Hazlitt



Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure. ~Martin H. Fischer



Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young



The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. ~Dave Barry



Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. ~Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long



If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ~Mahatma Gandhi



Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ~Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines, 1960



One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov



If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. ~Gerald Good



Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb



Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. ~Jonathan Swift



A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery. ~Diana Sturm



Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity. ~Author Unknown



Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~Richard Halliburton



When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ~Otto von Bismarck