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"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
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"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
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"My library
Was dukedom large enough." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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"A library is an arsenal of liberty." »Unknown
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library." »Frank Zappa
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"A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library." »Samuel Johnson
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"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." »Groucho Marx
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"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 soul."" »Paxton Hood
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"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
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"If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people." »Simeon Strunsky
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"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
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"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." »Carl Rowen
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"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
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"Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me." »Anatole France
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"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
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"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
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"Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential library, 2 October 1963." »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it." »Marie de Sevigne
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"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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"You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." »Albert Einstein
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