Quote by Mark Wallace Maguire Download Open image ““All was not lost when the Library at Alexandria was burned”” — Mark Wallace Maguire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at… — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
“I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But only at Antquarium did I feel a sense of what the library at Alexandria might have been: an accumulation of evidence and suggestions.” — Amy Halloran Copy Share Image
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share
“The Library of Alexandria?" I ask. "Didn't that burn down?" Mrs Philipoulus scoffs. "Damn fool Hypatia. Athena tried to convince her to install a… — Tera Lynn Childs Copy Share Image
“Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.” — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
“Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too” — HEINRICH HEINE Copy Share Image
“Given this appalling social climate, the new Library of Alexandria, built at a cost of $230 million in an attempt to revive its fabled… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Call them all the children of Ozymandias if you wish. They will be forgotten soon and before the tides of sand erase their names,… — Mark Wallace Maguire Copy Share Image
