I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my n

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. – George Robert Gissing

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

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton

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

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson

Category:
Wise Words

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Simplicity

I promised to empower the taxpayer – instead of a handful of big government union bosses. – Scott Walker

Category:
Government

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
God