Famous quotes containing the word oldest:
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.”
—Greil Marcus (b. 1945)