In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Death: I know, or I think I know that death will only be nothingness, but I don’t want oblivion yet. I want… — Ann Kelley Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I… — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong,… — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
“We all grow old, even books. But are you, is anyone, worth less, or less important, because they’ve been around for longer?’… — Nina George Copy Share Image
Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
“My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted… — Stephen Livingston Copy Share Image
“When she opened the door, the happy ringing of the silver bell above her head and the smell of old books welcomed… — Angela C. Blackmoore Copy Share Image
The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
“I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Rooks have clustered on either side of the long road. It is as if they line a grand parade route for our… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books .… — William H Gass Copy Share Image
“Then she let him lick her fingers for her. He ran his tongue around the small ovals of her nails. This was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there was this neighborhood beer and wine store that sold old comics for a nickel a piece.… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined kitchen-living room-dining room with windows… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost at Eighty" I think there are poems greater and stranger than any I have known. I would like to find… — Peter Boyle Copy Share Image
“Now don't think I've lost my mind - but I'll tell you, I'll look at some of the cards I have, some… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“I was walking up and down the rows of books at the antiquarian bookseller's in Karlova Street. Now and then I would… — Wieslaw Mysliwski Copy Share Image
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books. — George F Will Copy Share Image
