“Life is too short to read a bad book.”
“Life is too short to read a bad book”
“Life is too short to read bad books or drink bad wine.”
“Life's too short to wait to read.”
“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.”