Famous libraries quotations

   A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.  Nice Word by Shelby Foote

   A great library contains the diary of the human race.  Meaningful Quotation by George Mercer Dawson

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   A man's library is a sort of harem.  Good Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860

   Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.  Wise Phrase by Jesse Shera, 1977

   Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.  Wise Phrase by Finley Peter Dunne

   Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.  Famous Saying by Richard Powers

   To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.  Nice Word by Timothy Healy

   What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.  Meaningful Quotation by Archibald MacLeish, The Premise of Meaning, American Scholar, 5 June 1972

   Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.  Good Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Books, Society and Solitude

   No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.  Wise Phrase by John Alfred Landford

   Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul).  Wise Phrase by Berlin Royal Library, inscription

   There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.  Famous Saying by Tom Masson

   Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.  Nice Word by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

   For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye.  Meaningful Quotation by Curse Against Book Stealers, Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona

   Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.  Good Quote by Lady Bird Johnson

   If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.  Wise Phrase by Cicero

   The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.  Wise Phrase by Carl Sagan, Cosmos

   A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.  Famous Saying by Jo Godwin

   I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.  Nice Word by Sholem Asch

   Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.  Meaningful Quotation by Charles Medawar

   The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.  Good Quote by Malcolm Forbes

   No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.  Wise Phrase by Samuel Johnson

   The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.  Wise Phrase by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

   My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.  Famous Saying by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table

   The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. 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.  Nice Word by Norman Cousins



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