Book Quote by Ambrose Bierce

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding…

— Benjamin Franklin

There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word…

— Robert E. Lee

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it…

— James Dwight Dana

The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons,…

— Lawrence Durrell

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes…

— Mario Batali

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

— Lawrence Durrell

“A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste,’ the old man used to say. ‘These are the virtues that made Britain great.”

— Ken Follett

“One taste of the old time sets all to rights.”

— Robert Browning

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

— Norton Juster

“Breathing through his mouth, he found he could taste the air. It was the taste of an old, abandoned book; of a damp cemetery…

— Ambrose Ibsen

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and…

— Ambrose Bierce

“There's nothing like the feel of an old book in your hands.”

— Kathryn Shay