Old Books Quotes - Page 2

• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Reading, Mind

  1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• The book you don't read won't help.

  Jim Rohn

  Spiritual, Book, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 30, 2017

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• I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

  Constance Zimmer

  Book, Obsession, Really Cool

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

  Henry Ford

  Book, Old Friends, Age

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• opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Smell, Dry

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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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 rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

  Roy H. Williams

  Book, Today, Behavior

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.12, BookBaby

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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

  Book, Rocks, Maps

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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

  Book, Egypt, Smell

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Sea Breeze

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• We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Book, Reading

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mistake, Book, Mean

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• Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Philosophy, Book, Eye

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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 to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Book, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Two, Three

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• I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Book

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• It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Eye, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103, Xist Publishing

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• ... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Book, Clothes, Old Friends

  Dorothy Gilman (2007). “Kaleidoscope”, p.96, Ballantine Books

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• As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Strong, Real, Reading

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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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 sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

  James Dwight Dana

  Book, Earth, Sacred

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.

  Edmund White

  Book, Past, Sick

  "A Boy's Own Story". Book by Edmund White, 1982.

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• 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.

  Philip K. Dick

  Book, Mean, Space

  Philip K. Dick (2017). “Blade Runner”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Dedication, Men

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "The Razumovsky Duet" (p. 263), 1995.

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