Think ~ Read ~ Think

“Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Worth Reading

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally—and often far more—worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond." ~ C.S. Lewis

Read the best books...

"Read the best books first,or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

~ Henry David Thoreau

The more you read...

"The more that you read,the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

~ Dr. Seuss

Rare Intellect

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect,we should ask him what books he reads."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My Library Card

"When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began."

~ Rita Mae Brown

This is also true for my children. On their fifth birthdays we make quite the deal of getting their own library card. My children own our library (at least they think they do).

The failure to read good books...

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the visionand strengthens our most fatal tendency--the belief that the here and now is all there is."

~ Allan Bloom

Taste, Swallow, Chew, Digest...

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."

~ Francis Bacon

If you can read...

"If you can read this, thank a teacher."

~ Anonymous Teacher