<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Reading - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53017]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53012]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewohnt,   Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53013]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53010]]></link><description><![CDATA[My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,   Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,  Shine by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53005]]></link><description><![CDATA[But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,  Shine by the side of every path we tread   With such a lustre he that runs may read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52998]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That he that readeth may run over it. [Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52999]]></link><description><![CDATA[That he that readeth may run over it. [Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read to know we are not alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52990]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read to know we are not alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A home without books is a body without soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A home without books is a body without soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52994]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24521</guid></item></channel></rss>