Books are fascinating, educating, and significant. Regardless of the books you love, read the funniest quotes about reading books for a laugh.
Reading exercises your brain. It’s also an excellent form of entertainment and education.
Whether you read a little or a lot each day, it benefits your health.
Books fall under fiction and non-fiction. Within the types, there are dozens of genres.
If you’re ready to laugh, read the following quotes about reading books.
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The funniest quotes about reading books
1. “‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.” -Mark Twain
2. “A book that is shut is but a block.” -Thomas Fuller
3. “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” -Paul Sweeney
4. “The great thing about books is there are no commercials.” -Unknown
5. “It’s called ‘reading’. It’s how people install new software into their brains.” -Randy Glasbergen
6. “Bookmark? You mean quitter strip?” -Unknown
7. “I like big books, and I cannot lie.” -Unknown
8. “The book you don’t read won’t help.” -Jim Rohn
9. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” -Dr. Seuss
10. “Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!” -Mitch Hedberg
11. “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” -Henny Youngman
12. “Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.'” -Steven Wright
13. “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” -Austin Phelps
14. “If my book is open, your mouth should be closed.” -Unknown
15. “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” -P. J. O’Rourke
16. “My problem with reading is that I get distracted… By other books.” -Unknown
17. “Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.” -Becca Fitzpatrick
18. “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.” -Charles Dickens
19. “When I get a new book, I read the last page first. That way, if I die before I finish I know how it comes out.” -Nora Ephron
20. “If anyone needs me, I’ll be reading. Please don’t need me.” -Unknown
21. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” -Diane Duane
22. “I’m not addicted to reading. I can stop as soon as I finish the next chapter.” -Unknown
23. “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” -Bertrand Russell
24. “I enjoy long, romantic walks through the bookstore.” -Unknown
25. “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” -Ray Bradbury
26. “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” -Henry Ward Beecher
27. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” -Mary Schmich
28. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” -Ernest Hemingway
29. “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.” -Anna Quindlen
30. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” -J. K. Rowling
31. “I don’t have insomnia. I just read a lot.” -Unknown
32. “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.” -Joseph Joubert
33. “Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.” -Walter Moers
34. “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” -Stephen Fry
35. “If you’re going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.” -Oprah Winfrey
36. “The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” -Oscar Wilde
37. “Just in case things get boring, I’m bringing a book.” -Unknown
38. “You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C. S. Lewis
39. “People who say that I’m hard to shop for must not know where to buy books.” -Unknown
40. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” -Stephen King
41. “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” -Jane Smiley
42. “Don’t get into a relationship with someone who doesn’t own any books.” -Unknown
43. “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” -George R. R. Martin
44. “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” -Henry Ward Beecher
45. “I guess there are never enough books.” -John Steinbeck
46. “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.” -David Mitchell
47. “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” -Mary Wortley Montagu
48. “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” -Jhumpa Lahiri
49. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” -Cicero
50. “Books are the escape you never knew you needed until you start reading.” -Unknown
51. “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” -Mark Haddon
52. “You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.” -John Waters
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