Top 161 Antique Quotes & Sayings

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture.

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

I am never without my gavel, which I bought from an antique shop in Burford, in the Cotswolds.

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

If you're a man and you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay or married.

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.

Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

Dodger Stadium is not an antique. It's not Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a nice place to play baseball, but there are far better.

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

I have gained value like an antique. If there is an '80s event, I normally get the call and that is a nice problem to have.

Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion.

An antique is anything old with class.

You have to fight against being an antique.

I still like my antique clothes.

You know, where I come from, an antique, to be called an antique, it has to be at least a hundred years old. That's a law: before you can call something an antique, it has to be a hundred years old. In L.A., something that's been around for a couple of weeks is an antique. It's true! People are like, Look at this old-fashioned iPod. Look at this! It's the size of a man's hand! Ha ha ha ha. Back then-back then, people thought Mel Gibson was just acting crazy. It was a very different time.

I think people find it weird that I have a lot of long antique-lace dresses that I wear with boots.

There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.

The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

The United States is already antique.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

You have to fight against being an antique

My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

I wear a lot of different jewelry. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

I always try to scour local vintage shops and antique stores as much as I can while I'm on the road - it's my version of hunting for buried treasure.

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense