Old Book Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
— Ray Bradbury
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating.…
— Mati Unt
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There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of…
— Robert E. Lee
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I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the…
— J C Ryle
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When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that…
— Alain Resnais
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Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the…
— Roy H. Williams
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The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will…
— James Dwight Dana
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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive…
— Ambrose Bierce
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
— James Russell Lowell
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The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.
— Wendy Mass
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Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some…
— Thomas Hardy
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I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the…
— Michael Buckley
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Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time.…
— Jodi Picoult
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Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.…
— James Gleick
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When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on…
— Philippe Petit
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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to…
— Erica Jong
Who Wrote These Old Book Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Old Book Quotes as follows: