“ What is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists. ”
- Archibald MacLeish- Copy
- 447
“ No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safeWhere every book is thy epitaph. ”
- Henry Vaughan- Copy
- 442
“ Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. ”
- Nicholas Meyer- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
- 2K
“ Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book… ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
- 307
“ A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
- 660
“ Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ”
- Augustine Birrell- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 252
“ The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. ”
- Carl Rowan- Copy
- 192
“ The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner. ”
- Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna- Copy
- 3.1K
“ There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out. ”
- Thomas L. Masson- Copy
- 346
“ 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- Copy
- 3.7K
“ What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 1.3K
“ If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 742
“ I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. ”
- Sandra Cisneros- Copy
- 3.7K
“ No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library… When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
- 2.7K
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