Library Quotes

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. (Cicero)
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? View quote
Lily Tomlin
What is more important in a library than anything else - is the fact that it exists. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. View quote
Stephen Fry
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. View quote
Roger Ebert
...that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library... View quote
Aphra Behn
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. (David Mamet)
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. View quote
Anatole France
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume that there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. View quote
Louis L'Amour
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. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. View quote
Frank Zappa
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. View quote
Norman Cousins
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. View quote
William Penn
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. (John le Carré)
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, I'd like a card. He says, You have to prove you're a citizen of New York. So I stabbed him. View quote
Emo Philips
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
The best place to find things: the public library. View quote
Edward Bernays