A Quote by George R. R. Martin

The man who never reads lives only one.

George R. R. Martin

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He Man Lives Man Never Only Reads

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George R. R. Martin
American - Novelist
Born: September 20, 1948

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R. R. Martin

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

Matthew Arnold

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

Mark the Evangelist

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

George Orwell

The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

Alan Paton

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible reading. By reading that book we may learn what to believe, what to be, and what to do; how to live with comfort, and how to die in peace.” Happy is that man who possesses a Bible! Happier still is he who reads it! Happiest of all is he who not only reads it, but obeys it, and makes it the rule of his faith and practice!

J. C. Ryle

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

Charles Spurgeon

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

C. S. Lewis

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

Edwin Way Teale

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

Gautama Buddha

The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.

Richard Sibbes

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.