Quotes About Tomes

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress...

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.

I only hope you are never tempted to venture into the library's Forbidden, Unspeakably Dangerous, Never-To-Be-Checked-Out-By-Anyone Section to peruse our secret copy of that most shocking and insanity-inducing of ancient tomes, typeset at a point-size convenient to those with impaired vision—the Large-Print Necronomicon!

Sentient tomes are to be avoided at all costs. It's in the DMA agent handbook, which hasn't achieved self-awareness, at least as far as I knew.

tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance