| "Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." »Mark Twain |
| "I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched." »John K. Hutchens |
| "Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions" »W. J. Reichmann |
| "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." »Jorge Luis Borges |
| "Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week." »Gareth Roberts |
| "A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." »Conan Doyle |
| "A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life." »Norman Cousins |
| "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 |
| "If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people." »Simeon Strunsky |
| "The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." »Carl Rowen |
| "People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway." »Simeon Strunsky |
| "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 |
| "There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." »Donald J. Adams |
| "When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it." »Marie de Sevigne |
| "It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour." »Vartan Gregorian |
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