Authors Quotes

523 quotes by 427 authors

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to… — Francis Bacon
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none… — Joseph Addison
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. — John Berger
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. — Alain de Botton
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt… — Nick Cave
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
We must be authors of the history of our age. — Madeleine Albright
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...… — Thomas Jefferson
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. — Joseph Addison
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare… — Richard Bach
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,… — Albert Camus
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the… — Stephen Vizinczey
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever. — Ellen Goodman
Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ. — Max Lucado
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it… — Winston Churchill
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about… — Ludwig von Mises
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet

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