Authors Quotes
523 quotes by 427 authors
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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
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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
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
— John Berger
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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
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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
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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
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We must be authors of the history of our age.
— Madeleine Albright
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
— Ellen Goodman
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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
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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
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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
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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
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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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