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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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"Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV." »B. J. Gupta
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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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"Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy." »Henri de Lubac
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"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A library is an arsenal of liberty." »Unknown
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"My library
Was dukedom large enough." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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"Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions." »Louis Pasteur
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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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"Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal." »David Assael
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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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"At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine." »Joel Patrick Warneke
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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 there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary." »Ayn Rand
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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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