Libraries sayings

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◆ When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

- Joan Bauer99

◆ In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.

- Linton Weeks99

◆ A library is thought in cold storage.

- Herbert Samuel99

◆ To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

- Barbara W Tuchman99

◆ 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.

- Arthur Conan Doyle Sr99

◆ I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

- Luigi Barzine99

◆ Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

- Henry Ward Beecher99

◆ No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ Your library is your portrait.

- Holbrook Jackson99

◆ That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library

- Aphra Behn99

◆ 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.

- Timothy Healy99

◆ What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

- Archibald MacLeish99

◆ Some men have only one book in them, others a library

- Proverb99

◆ Libraries are not made, they grow

- Augustine Birrell99

◆ My library was dukedom large enough.

- William Shakespeare99