Book-collectors Quote by Vincent Starrett

“Taken as a whole, men are idiots and fools. They want what they cannot have, and fear what they do have has been gotten…

— Suzanne Enoch

“The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.’ ”

— Lisa Wingate

“he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I”

— Tracy Chevalier

“The world was full of collectors, scouring the earth for pieces of themselves.”

— Kathleen Tessaro

“For inside him there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector - and I mean…

— Walter Benjamin

“All men have been given time, but only a few men know its value.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.”

— Hal Ackerman

“Money can only be used to buy man-made goods.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I can buy anything a man can get me. I only want his time; spend it on me.”

— Marion Bekoe

“That’s the problem with men with money. They think they can do anything they want and get away with it.”

— Tina Martin

“Sometimes men want what they don't have because they don't have it. Even if everyone offered to share, they would only want the share…

— Helene Wecker

“A man's riches are based on what he can do without.”

— Henry David Thoreau