Libraries quotes
+3It is with books as it is with men a very small number play a great part; the rest are lost in the multitude.
- Voltaire
+1Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
- Barbara Tuchman
+1One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list.
- Mary B. W. Tabor
+1Reading a poor book is an opportunity lost of reading a good one.
- Anonymous
+1Research means that you don’t know, but are willing to find out.
- Charles F. Kettering
+1Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
- Augustine Birrell
+1A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
- Shelby Foote
+1Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
+1We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
- John Lubbock
+1Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
- George Gilfillan
+1Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
- Richard Powers
+1The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones.
- Joseph Joubert
+1The dissemination of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of civilization.
- John F. Budd
+1A library is but the soul’s burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Your library is your portrait.
- Holbrook Jackson
+1No furniture so charming as books.
- Sydney Smith
+1Libraries are not made; they grow.
- Augustine Birrell
+1A good book is the best of friends.
- English Proverb
+1My library Was dukedom large enough.
- Shakespeare
+1A library is thought in cold storage.
- Herbert Samuel
+1Choose an author as you would a friend.
- Wentworth Dillon
+1Indiscriminate reading is unprofitable to the mind.
- Latin Proverb
+1People will not be better than the books they read.
- Bishop Potter
+1I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
- Alexander Smith
+1The true university these days is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1In reading, as in eating, an appetite is half the feast.
- Anonymous
+1But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
- James Boswell
+1People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
+1To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
- Cicero
+1To know where you can find anything, that in short is the largest part of learning.
- Anonymous
+1If we encounter a man of great intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
- Jacques Ellul
+1As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1Show me the books he loves and I shall know The man far better than through mortal friends.
- S. Weir Mitchell
+1They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
- William Shakespeare
+1There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
- Tom Masson
+1He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge — where it is written and where it is to be found.
- A.A. Hodge
+1No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Samuel Johnson
+1We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it to only the best books.
- Sydney Smith
