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Quotes on Collectibles

Quotes on <b>Collectibles</b>
If you are an antique or collectible lover and looking for some inspiring quotes, these quotes would surely find you in good mood.

Antiques and collectibles have always evoked interest and this is the reason why we have come up with some interesting collectible quotes for you.

“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word ”collectible” as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.” – Fran Lebowitz

“Beware of anyone who says they are manufacturing antiques” – Unknown

“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.” – William G. Golding

“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“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