Logo
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. -

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. – Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"

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

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Books

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

Category:
Books

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. – Stéphane Mallarmé

Category:
Books

There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and Ive talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and thats the Hollywood car test. – Ryan Tedder

Category:
car

Whether you think a film will affect society or its plain entertainment, its all excellent, its all noble. – Joaquin Phoenix

Category:
Society

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art. – Baltasar Gracian

Category:
Art

Opal is the multi-gem. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Jewelry