 
|
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
-Louis Macneice
|
|
|
|
My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
-Malcolm X
|
|
|
|
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
-Thomas L. Masson
|
|
|
|
Here with hosts of friends
I revel who can never change or chill;
Though the fleeting years and seasons
they are fair and faithful still!
Kings and courtiers, knights and jesters,
belles and beaux of far away,
Meet and mingle with the beauties
and the heroes of to-day.
All the lore of ancient sages,
all the light of souls divine,
All the music, wit and wisdom
of the gray old world is mine,
Garnered here where fall the shadows
of the mystic pineland's gloom!
And I sway an airy kingdom
from my little book-lined room.
-Lucy Maud Montgomery
from My Library
|
|
|
|
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
-Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna
|
|
|
|
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
-Carl Rowan
In American Libraries
|
|
|
|
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
-John Ruskin
|
|
|
|
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, ch. 22, sct. 257, 1851.
|
|
|
|
My library was dukedom large enough.
-William Shakespeare
|
|
|
|
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
|
|
|
|
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.
-Alexander Smith
|
|
|
|
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
-Barbara Tuchman
|
|
|
|
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
-Source Unknown
|
|
|
|
An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory.
-Source Unknown
|
|
|
|
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
-John Greenleaf Whittier
|
|
|
|
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
-Virginia Woolf
|
|
Books about Libraries
