Groucho Marx Quotes

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

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

Reading is my greatest luxury.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

Read books. They are good for us.

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.