Old Books Quotes
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Old Books Quotes & Sayings
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Never read a book that is not a year old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
— Gianni Versace
Why am I writing books in my old age? Who am I trying to impress? Why go on? the answer is fear of golf.
— David Taylor
It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.
— Michael Patrick Hearn
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
— Nick Cave
Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.
— Carmela Dutra
I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.
— Amy Poehler
Where shadows dim with shadows mate,
in caverns deep and dark.
Where old books dream of bygone days,
when they were wood and bark ... — Walter Moers
in caverns deep and dark.
Where old books dream of bygone days,
when they were wood and bark ... — Walter Moers
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
— Nicholas Sparks
Don't get me wrong - I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
— Patrick Carman
There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters
— Jon Courtenay Grimwood
I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
— Dave Mustaine
Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes
— Thien
A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree! — P.D. Cain
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree! — P.D. Cain
This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.
— Jonathan Galassi
I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
— Brandon Sanderson
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
— William Faulkner
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
— Christian Lacroix
When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century.
— Don Borchert
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.
— Jane Hamilton
Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.
— C.S. Lewis
I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books.
— Nicholaa Spencer
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
— Ed Emberley
We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .
— Tiffany King
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.
— Lu Xun
The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now
— Philippa Gregory
Books measure time in both moments and years.
We all grow old but the stories never will. — R.M. Engelhardt
We all grow old but the stories never will. — R.M. Engelhardt
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
— C.S. Lewis
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
— Oscar Wilde
I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.
— Leah Spiegel
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
— Henry Ford
Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING
— Kate Forsyth
I know the names of the books - their old covers bleached to palest greens or pinks by the endless cycle of summers - lined up on the shelf.
— Harriet Lane
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
— David James Duncan
The fragrance of rain mixes with the smell of old books. It is heavenly - that combination of threat and safety.
— Trudy Wallis
Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose, Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands
— Larry Moniz
It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all.
— George R R Martin
Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner?
— Robin Sloan
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
— Anne Fadiman
Dirty Freds ... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art.
— Alan C. Martin
I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded of the books that were all her life.
— Deborah Meyler
[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.
— John Milton
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?
— Elizabeth Kostova
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
— Leigh Hunt
I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.
— Belinda Jeffrey
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
— Method Man
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.
— Lance Olsen
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
— Bernard Baruch
He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.
— Beth Cato
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
— Dane Cook
Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.
— Paullina Simons
Old books are like Old friends
— George R R Martin
Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers.
— China Cancio
Read two old books for every new one.
— J.I. Packer
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
— Henry Austin Dobson
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
— Jill Lepore
I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
— Constance Zimmer
The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
— Gail Z. Martin
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
— Margaret Drabble
The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion.
— Faith Hunter
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all R failures that's why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way
— Tushar Upreti
a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.
— Donna Tartt
Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.
— Maggie Young
The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read?
— Karen Marie Moning
If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.
— Mark Pryor
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.
— Jonathan Lethem
There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
— Scott Douglas
When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.
— Marilynne Robinson
When a new book is published, read an old one.
— Samuel Rogers
New books feel special," said Hawthorne. "They're like babies born into the skin of old men.
— Mark Beauregard
I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.
— Richard Brautigan
My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted snugly into the trunk.
— Stephen Livingston
The Facts were right there waiting for me,hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest
— Ernest Cline
I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.
— Jamie Campbell Bower
Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What
— Terry Pratchett
There are some books that LIVE," she mused. "They are young with us, and they grow old with us.
— Virginia Woolf