Quotes on libraries
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.
Dunne, Finley Peter
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
Powers, Richard
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Bombeck, Erma
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.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
MacLeish, Archibald
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Foote, Shelby
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
Godwin, Jo
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.
Dyer, William
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.
Healy, Timothy
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.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.
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