Logo
Borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoile

Borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. – Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, "The Two Races of Men," 1822

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

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Books

Books are embalmed minds. – Bovee

Category:
Books

A book that is shut is but a block. – Thomas Fuller

Category:
Books

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written. – Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. – Tony Blair

Category:
Business

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker

Category:
Goals

Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message. – Ted Cruz

Category:
Future

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly. – Jennifer Lopez

Category:
Death