First Editions Quotes

#1. Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

A. S. W. Rosenbach

#2. He loves first editions, especially of women: little girls are his passion.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read one of the stories in it already, and several other Saunders stories in magazines and anthologies, and liked them all.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#4. I only write first editions.

Groucho Marx

#5. I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

Winona Ryder

#6. There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.

Cassandra Clare

#7. I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

Peter Webber

#8. Book collecting! First editions and best editions; old books and new books - the ones you like and want to have around you. Thousands of 'em. I've had more honest satisfaction and happiness collecting books than anything else I've ever done in life.

Peter Ruber

#9. If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

James Lovelock

#11. You are ultimately responsible for your life and no one else.

John Spender

#12. Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

Stephen King

#13. Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

Lionel Shriver

#14. What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

Margaret Mead

#15. When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

Neil Gaiman

#16. I have had as many names as there are years to time itself! roared the monster. I am Herne the Hunter! I am Cernunnos! I am the eternal Green Man!

Patrick Ness

#17. You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.

Ericka Williams

#18. A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

James Keller

#19. If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

Matt Drudge

#20. The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#22. We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Max DePree

#23. the book I was reading turned out to be crack

Elizabeth Norris