Old Books Quotes
Old Books Quote of the day
I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!
You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.
