If you are an admirer of antiques and collectibles and cannot put your eyes off these collections then this blog, a compilation of antique quotations for true admirers, is just meant for you.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It’s my hobby to go around to shops and markets. – Ursula Andress
“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.” – Desiderius Erasmus
“O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, When none will sweat but for promotion” – William Shakespeare
“They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis” – Daniel Defoe
“I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.” – Billy Joel
“There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.” – French Proverb
“When antiques started to decline, I shifted more of my square footage over to new furniture and decor, … The antique mall is now 30 percent of the square footage where at one point it was 100 percent.” – Carol Cunningham
“If we use the old antiquated systems we’ve got now, a Mars landing won’t happen in my lifetime.” - Gordon Cooper
“Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity” – Voltaire
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