1:読書位安い娯楽はない(No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.„•Mary Wortley Montagu)、残念ながらTVにとって代わられた。
2:読書は飛行のようなもの。すべてを見渡す“
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. „
•A C Grayling
3:読書の時間を見つけろ“
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.„
•Confucius
4:より読めばより知る“
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.„
•Dr. Seuss
5:すべての読書家は指導者ではない。しかし、すべての指導者は読書家だ
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.„
•ハリー・トルーマンHarry S. Truman
第33代大統領(1945年4月12日 – 1953年1月20日)、
6:読書が心に与えるものは、運動が体に与えるもののごとし“
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.„
•Joseph Addison
・本はあなたが手にする夢だ“
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.„
•Neil Gaiman
・本を売ることは彼に新しい生活を売ること“
When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.„
•Christopher Morley
・読書は最高の友“
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends, they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors and the most patient of teachers. „
•Charles W Eliot
・読書は自分の心を開かせる“
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. „
•William Hazlitt
・読書は人生の羅針盤“
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. „
•Jesse Lee Bennett
・良い本は何時でも手元に。“
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. „
•Holbrook Jackson
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