Logo
Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day a

Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Books
category

Classics are not classics because hoary with age — they are the steel balls which have worn down mountains but remained unchanged in the mill of time. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Books

Through all of my youth these books were my companions, and now, as I write these lines, after sixty years, they still look down upon me with their old friendliness. – James L. Whitney, “Reminiscences of an Old Librarian,” November 1909

Category:
Books

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka

Category:
Books

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. – Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. – Frank Tyger

Category:
Reality

We cant destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. – Robin Morgan

Category:
Marriage

Detainee policy in this war is hard, its complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business. – Lindsey Graham

Category:
Business

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts. – Andrew Young

Category:
Hope