Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And… — John Donne
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of… — Mark Twain
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked… — Charles Dickens
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the… — Barbara Tuchman
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,… — John Aubrey
When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to… — Louisa May Alcott
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of… — Tom Peters
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. — Ronald Reagan
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco
Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones. — Donald McCaig
A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the… — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. — Elizabeth McCracken
Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library. — Louis Nizer
We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. — Hugo Ball
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. — Vartan Gregorian
A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. — Vicki Myron
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. — John Braine
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. — Alan Dershowitz
Libraries are the future of reading. — Courtney Milan
Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for… — Courtney Milan
A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the… — Vicki Myron
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me… — Anita Diament
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself… — Robert Louis Stevenson
This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money?… — Unknown Author
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. — Roger Rosenblatt

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