Age Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Books that have become classicsbooks that have hadtheir day and now get more praise than perusalalways remind me of retired colonels and majors and…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers.

— Jim Harbaugh

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you…

— Douglas Coupland

“Life got in the way -- two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more money, all…

— Paul Auster

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich…

— Italo Calvino

“Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of…

— Alexei Panshin

I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.

— David Grann

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

— Leo Strauss

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

— John Larroquette

“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly…

— Timothy Ferriss

“books of my fellow Living History trippers. Or at least get me out of their bad ones. Now to come up with some half-decent…

— James Patterson