Fun Library Quotes!
"Being nice to the librarian means the difference between the right answer and a wrong one."
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity."
-Spanish proverb
I cannot live without books
-Thomas Jefferson, writer, president and all round cool guy
"Whatever the cost of our libraries the cost is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."
-Walter Cronkite
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It’s an enormous force for good.
-- Barack Obama –
"Cutting Libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague."
Eleanor Crumblehulme, Library Assistant at the University of British Columbia Law School Library
“You’re Right. No Human Being would stack books like this."
-Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.You live several lives while reading it.
-William Styron, novelist (1925-2006)
"A truly great library has something in it to offend everyone."
-Jo Godwin
People become Librarians because they know too much
My library was dukedom large enough.
-William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
A man's library is a sort of harem.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive.You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything.They're like, plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them."
---Michael Moore
“Once you learn to read you will be forever free."
-”Frederick Douglas
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx
"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."
-Abraham Flexner, educator (1866-1959)
"This is a place of mystery.....a Sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
"I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!"
-Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons
“We do not just file books, We share treasures with children that no one can take away from them. It was a Librarian that shared those books with me when I was in Kindergarten, and I will forever be grateful to her! I think about her now with much love and fond memories.Know that all the work we do, or have done, benefited a child in so many ways that they silently appreciated it and you!!
-Monica Buelna
“So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reasons for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians."
-Gorilla Librarian, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Dear Abby: I thought you might be interested in the role you played in getting my young son to read. When he was in the elementary grades, I insisted that he read the newspaper every day and find something interesting to discuss with me. Well, it didn't take him very long to find your column, and he shared it with me each day. He is grown now and loves to read your column and many other things as well. Thank you, Dear Abby.
--Stella Lehnert, Detroit
Dear Stella: Thank you. I have always encouraged young people to hone their reading skills. To learn that I had a part in developing your son's reading habits is gratifying.For those young people who may have missed my advice in reading, I repeat: If I could give young people one piece of advice, it would be read, read, read. In reading, you will open new worlds, real and imagined. Read for information, read for pleasure. Our libraries are filled with knowledge and joy, and it's all there--free for the taking. The person who does not read is no better off than the person who cannot read. A poor book sets a child back, a mediocre book leaves children where they are, but a good book moves children on to growth and pleasure, to new understanding and discoveries. – Lillian Smith
"We read to know we are not alone."
- C. S. Lewis
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from all of the miseries of life."
- William Somerset Maugham
"In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read."
- S. I. Hayakawa
A library should be like a pair of open arms.--Roger Rosenblatt
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.—Borges
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-Addison
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
-Woody Allen
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
-Guy Davenport
Reading musses up my mind.
-Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
-Jacqueline Susann
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
-Robert Byrne
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
-Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 07-10-2006
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
-Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
-Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
-Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
-Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
-Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937),
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
-Erica Jong
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
-Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
-Lord Acton
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
-Spanish Proverb
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
-Elaine Gill
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
-Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-Sir Richard Steele
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.
-Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
-Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
-No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
-Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
-I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
-Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
-Unknown
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 (1890 - 1969)
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
-Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
-Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
My library was dukedom large enough.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-S.J. Perelman
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past.
-Amy Lowell
Technology: opening minds with a new set of keys.
-Anonymous
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most.
-Theodore Parker
The newest books are those that never grow old.
-George Holbrook Jackson
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
-Holbrook Jackson
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
-Thomas Jefferson
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
-Stephen Vincent Benet
Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.
-Pete Seeger
A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.
-Moses Ibn Ezra
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
-Jim Rohn
The librarian’s recipe for long life: keep breathing.
-The Frugal Librarian
Books have the power to make time stand still, retreat, or fly into the future.
-Jim Bishop
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
-Harper Lee
Man is what he reads.
-Joseph Brodsky
He that loves reading, has everything within his reach.
-William Godwin
Every book must be chewed to get out its juice.
-Chinese Proverb
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
-Mary McLeod Bethune
Books are the door of escape from the forest.
-E.B. White
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all the time.
-John Ruskin
What you don’t know would make a great book.
-Sydney Smith
What is reading, but silent conversation.
-Walter Savage Landor
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
-W. Fusselman
Freedom of the press only has real meaning if people know how to read.
-The Frugal Librarian
You don’t have to burn the books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
-Ray Bradbury
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests: just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
As I read, my ears are opened to the magic of the spoken word.
-Richard Wright
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Cicero
If I couldn’t read, I couldn’t live.
-Thelma Green
Books are humanity in print.
-Barbara Tuchman
A book may be compared to a neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
-Rupert Brooke
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
-A. Bronson Alcott
Books are quiet. They do not dissolve into wavy lines or snowstorm effects. They do not pause to deliver commercials. They are three-dimensional, having length, breadth and depth. They are convenient to handle and completely portable.
-Anonymous
If the riches of the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms in Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
-Francois Fenelon
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
-Francis Bacon
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
-Lady Mary Montague
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-Joseph Brodsky
What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
-Mohandas Gandhi
There are three basic rules about library research; unfortunately, no one remembers what they are.
-The Frugal Librarian
A real book is not the one that we read, but that read us.
-W.H. Auden
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-Mark Twain
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
-H.L. Mencken
Books are not made for furniture. But there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes the home.
-Henry Ward Beecher
I am a part of everything that I have read.
-John Kieran
Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers hang them. Librarians put theirs on the book sale shelf.
-The Frugal Librarian
Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
-Elizabeth Hardwick
When the sun rises, nature wakes up; when a book is read, the mind is enlightened.
-Mongolian Saying
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts: monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on.
-Clarence Day
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine-everybody drinks water.
-Mark Twain
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
-Thomas Carlyle
Read in order to live.
-Gustave Flaubert
A library is thought in cold storage.
-Herbert Samuel
A library is a hospital for the mind.
-Anonymous
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.
-Frank Zappa
We are what we read.
-Richard Saul Wurman
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
-Mortimer J. Adler
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-Edmund Burke
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
-Barbara Tuchman
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
-William Styron
Librarian is a service occupation ... gas station attendant to the mind.
- Richard Powers
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by a foot.
-Alan Bennett
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity."
-Spanish proverb
I cannot live without books
-Thomas Jefferson, writer, president and all round cool guy
"Whatever the cost of our libraries the cost is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."
-Walter Cronkite
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It’s an enormous force for good.
-- Barack Obama –
"Cutting Libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague."
Eleanor Crumblehulme, Library Assistant at the University of British Columbia Law School Library
“You’re Right. No Human Being would stack books like this."
-Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.You live several lives while reading it.
-William Styron, novelist (1925-2006)
"A truly great library has something in it to offend everyone."
-Jo Godwin
People become Librarians because they know too much
My library was dukedom large enough.
-William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
A man's library is a sort of harem.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive.You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything.They're like, plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them."
---Michael Moore
“Once you learn to read you will be forever free."
-”Frederick Douglas
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx
"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."
-Abraham Flexner, educator (1866-1959)
"This is a place of mystery.....a Sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
"I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!"
-Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons
“We do not just file books, We share treasures with children that no one can take away from them. It was a Librarian that shared those books with me when I was in Kindergarten, and I will forever be grateful to her! I think about her now with much love and fond memories.Know that all the work we do, or have done, benefited a child in so many ways that they silently appreciated it and you!!
-Monica Buelna
“So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reasons for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians."
-Gorilla Librarian, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Dear Abby: I thought you might be interested in the role you played in getting my young son to read. When he was in the elementary grades, I insisted that he read the newspaper every day and find something interesting to discuss with me. Well, it didn't take him very long to find your column, and he shared it with me each day. He is grown now and loves to read your column and many other things as well. Thank you, Dear Abby.
--Stella Lehnert, Detroit
Dear Stella: Thank you. I have always encouraged young people to hone their reading skills. To learn that I had a part in developing your son's reading habits is gratifying.For those young people who may have missed my advice in reading, I repeat: If I could give young people one piece of advice, it would be read, read, read. In reading, you will open new worlds, real and imagined. Read for information, read for pleasure. Our libraries are filled with knowledge and joy, and it's all there--free for the taking. The person who does not read is no better off than the person who cannot read. A poor book sets a child back, a mediocre book leaves children where they are, but a good book moves children on to growth and pleasure, to new understanding and discoveries. – Lillian Smith
"We read to know we are not alone."
- C. S. Lewis
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from all of the miseries of life."
- William Somerset Maugham
"In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read."
- S. I. Hayakawa
A library should be like a pair of open arms.--Roger Rosenblatt
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.—Borges
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-Addison
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
-Woody Allen
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
-Guy Davenport
Reading musses up my mind.
-Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
-Jacqueline Susann
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
-Robert Byrne
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
-Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 07-10-2006
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
-Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
-Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
-Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
-Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
-Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937),
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
-Erica Jong
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
-Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
-Lord Acton
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
-Spanish Proverb
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
-Elaine Gill
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
-Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-Sir Richard Steele
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.
-Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
-Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
-No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
-Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
-I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
-Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
-Unknown
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 (1890 - 1969)
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
-Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
-Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
My library was dukedom large enough.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-S.J. Perelman
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past.
-Amy Lowell
Technology: opening minds with a new set of keys.
-Anonymous
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most.
-Theodore Parker
The newest books are those that never grow old.
-George Holbrook Jackson
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
-Holbrook Jackson
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
-Thomas Jefferson
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
-Stephen Vincent Benet
Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.
-Pete Seeger
A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.
-Moses Ibn Ezra
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
-Jim Rohn
The librarian’s recipe for long life: keep breathing.
-The Frugal Librarian
Books have the power to make time stand still, retreat, or fly into the future.
-Jim Bishop
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
-Harper Lee
Man is what he reads.
-Joseph Brodsky
He that loves reading, has everything within his reach.
-William Godwin
Every book must be chewed to get out its juice.
-Chinese Proverb
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
-Mary McLeod Bethune
Books are the door of escape from the forest.
-E.B. White
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all the time.
-John Ruskin
What you don’t know would make a great book.
-Sydney Smith
What is reading, but silent conversation.
-Walter Savage Landor
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
-W. Fusselman
Freedom of the press only has real meaning if people know how to read.
-The Frugal Librarian
You don’t have to burn the books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
-Ray Bradbury
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests: just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
As I read, my ears are opened to the magic of the spoken word.
-Richard Wright
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Cicero
If I couldn’t read, I couldn’t live.
-Thelma Green
Books are humanity in print.
-Barbara Tuchman
A book may be compared to a neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
-Rupert Brooke
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
-A. Bronson Alcott
Books are quiet. They do not dissolve into wavy lines or snowstorm effects. They do not pause to deliver commercials. They are three-dimensional, having length, breadth and depth. They are convenient to handle and completely portable.
-Anonymous
If the riches of the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms in Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
-Francois Fenelon
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
-Francis Bacon
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
-Lady Mary Montague
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-Joseph Brodsky
What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
-Mohandas Gandhi
There are three basic rules about library research; unfortunately, no one remembers what they are.
-The Frugal Librarian
A real book is not the one that we read, but that read us.
-W.H. Auden
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-Mark Twain
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
-H.L. Mencken
Books are not made for furniture. But there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes the home.
-Henry Ward Beecher
I am a part of everything that I have read.
-John Kieran
Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers hang them. Librarians put theirs on the book sale shelf.
-The Frugal Librarian
Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
-Elizabeth Hardwick
When the sun rises, nature wakes up; when a book is read, the mind is enlightened.
-Mongolian Saying
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts: monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on.
-Clarence Day
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine-everybody drinks water.
-Mark Twain
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
-Thomas Carlyle
Read in order to live.
-Gustave Flaubert
A library is thought in cold storage.
-Herbert Samuel
A library is a hospital for the mind.
-Anonymous
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.
-Frank Zappa
We are what we read.
-Richard Saul Wurman
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
-Mortimer J. Adler
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-Edmund Burke
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
-Barbara Tuchman
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
-William Styron
Librarian is a service occupation ... gas station attendant to the mind.
- Richard Powers
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by a foot.
-Alan Bennett