Old Book Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. — James Russell Lowell
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
It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks. — Wendy Mass
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: