Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall. — Al Yankovic
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. — Frank Zappa
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story… — Christine Quinn
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. — Germaine Greer
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight — Ezra Pound
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without… — Mark Twain
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is… — Ayn Rand
Books may well be the only true magic. — Alice Hoffman
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. — Richard Powers
You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy… — Graham Chapman
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I… — Jane Austen
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. — Joan Bauer
It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library. — Lorrie Moore
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living… — Virginia Woolf
Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all. — Gene Simmons
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled… — Pete Hamill
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers… — Doris Lessing
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. — Rita Mae Brown
Information is the currency of democracy. — Thomas Jefferson
It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.… — Annie Dillard
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. — Isabel Allende
Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. — William Shakespeare

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