Libraries quotes

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◆ In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

- Mark Twain100

◆ I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section.

- 100

◆ No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

- Lawrence Clark Powell99

◆ Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

- Barbara Kingsolver99

◆ The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

- Carl T Rowan99

◆ "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

- Henry Ward Beecher99

◆ I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose

- George Carlin99

◆ I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

- Jorge Luis Borges99

◆ Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.

- Lily Tomlin99

◆ A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them

- Mark Twain99

◆ Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

- Anthony Burgess99

◆ A library is an arsenal of liberty.

- Bob Dylan99

◆ My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve

- Joseph Howe99

◆ A library implies an act of faith

- Victor Hugo99