Sayings About A Library

#1. A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Christopher Morley

#2. I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.

Willy Russell

#3. Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Desiderius Erasmus

#4. A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

Trudy Wallis

#5. You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

The Doctor

#6. Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

Lindsey Graham

#7. You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

Joanna Trollope

#8. Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.

Ted Sarandos

#9. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Every death is like the burning of a library.

Alex Haley

#11. The world is a library and we are its stories.

Renata Bowers

#12. The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

E.L. Doctorow

#13. A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

Stephen King

#14. Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Robin Sloan

#15. It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

John D'Agata

#16. You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

Anthony De Mello

#17. If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#18. One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#19. A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.

E. Powys Mathers

#20. If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

Stephen Leacock

#21. A house that has a library in it has a soul.

Plato

#22. ALBUS/RON: How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library.

J.K. Rowling

#23. What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

Malorie Blackman

#24. If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Mark Pryor

#25. I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

Bill Bryson

#26. To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

Henry Ward Beecher

#28. To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

Carlos Maria Dominguez

#29. I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

Victoria Hanley

#30. I sometimes imagine I would like my ashes to be scattered in a library. But then the librarians would just have to come in early the next morning to sweep them up again, before the people got there.

Neil Gaiman

#31. The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Melvil Dewey

#32. There is something nice about a library, isn't there?" Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. "The scent of ink and worn, dusty pages.

Ilana Waters

#33. I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

Jacqueline Susann

#34. As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.

John Allison

#35. The men drink a third beer, then a fourth, in preparation for the cold trip crosstown.
"I wish I could meet a decent woman."
Howard, who has learned the great secret, and who after beer, is generous: "Go to a library.

Jack Cady

#36. When a story teller dies, a library burns.

Evan Turk

#37. I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!"

Mitch Hedberg

#38. A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
[Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

Alan Bennett

#39. A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

Stephen King

#40. Never leave a page unturned if you find a book and never leave a book untouched if you find a library.

K. Hari Kumar

#41. What better place to kill time than a library?

Diane Setterfield

#42. I smile. Not just at bad clowns, but at "library science." I like that name. It makes a library sound as vast and mysterious as the universe or the ocean, requiring specific study to be understood.

Deb Caletti

#43. With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Lemony Snicket

#44. It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Iain Banks

#45. L.A. is a constellation of microclimates and microcosms, a library with dozens of special collections. A 20-minute drive can bring a temperature change of 15 degrees. Crossing an intersection can feel like crossing a national border.

Meghan Daum

#46. Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Sydney Smith

#47. There was something about the smell of books, the ink-and-paper-and-leather scent, the way dust in a library seemed to behave differently from the dust in any other room
it was golden in the light of the witchlight tapers, setting like pollen across the polished surfaces of long tables.

Cassandra Clare

#48. Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into memories in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by adorning it with the right to become memorable, to be placed in a library of memories.

Muriel Barbery

#49. One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

Vance Havner

#50. It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.

Jeanette Winterson

#51. It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Elizabeth Kostova

#52. There must be a little memory bank, a library or storage unit in my brain, that just tucks away memories of other people. I suck in as much of life as I can. I don't do it deliberately - I'm just curious. Dangerously so. I collect visual and aural patterns, physical human patterns, from experience.

Debra Lawrance

#53. Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.
[Arthur]

PBS Kids

#54. You smell like a bar," he said.
I thought, You smell like a library. But I wanted to have sex right then, so I said, "You smell like a poem.

Melissa Bank

#55. There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.

Niall Williams

#56. Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a bodybuilder on steroids.

Dean Koontz

#57. Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.
'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.
'There's a library?'
'Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.

Ransom Riggs

#58. Don't whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can't you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion - in both inner and outer worlds.

Bill Holm

#59. He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

Saadi

#60. And the city would have a library, too. A great, wonderful library. Or a bookshop with a knowledgeable owner who could make sure her thirst for books was always sated.

Sarah J. Maas

#61. A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

Daniel Dennett

#62. To all those men and women who will always find a place for themselves in a library more easily than in society, I dedicate this entertainment.

Sophie Divry

#63. In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

Alison Weir

#64. It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Alberto Manguel

#65. The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it from the fiber of your own will. From somewhere, you get it. You begin

Barbara Kingsolver

#66. An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

Marian Seldes

#67. Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

Alain De Botton

#68. What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

Anne Carson

#69. You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

Richard Flanagan

#70. If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#71. I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

Brian Selznick

#72. You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.

Louisa May Alcott

#73. If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I'd marry him too.

Aya Ling

#74. As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

Kathryn Schulz

#75. Support your local library. Get a library card. Pay your goddamn fines. Man up for Christ's sake. Be a little responsible. And if there's any shushing to be done, let it be done by a professional. Me.

Don Borchert

#76. All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

Rivera Sun

#77. A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible.

Chris Grabenstein

#78. A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#79. The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.

Lev Grossman

#80. The subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

Carolyn Wells

#81. The idea that I was building a library to bequeath to the next generation is one of the greatest fallacies of my life.

Linda Grant

#82. My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to ancient tradition.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#83. I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

Jorge Luis Borges

#84. I die and go to a library? Sure, it could be worse, but I've spent a lot of time in libraries this year. Quite enough time, really. Do I have to stay forever? Where do I go pee?

Brent Weeks

#85. It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.'
'Sounds like a tomb. Aren't you afraid of what you'll find in there?'
'It's a library; only the stupid and the evil are afraid of those.

Iain Banks

#86. In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.

Martha Cooley

#87. Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Mark Twain

#88. Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

Malcolm Turnbull

#89. What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

Aaron Swartz

#90. A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

Richard De Bury

#91. Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Alex Haley

#92. Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

Mu Xin

#93. The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Kurt Vonnegut

#94. One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Blake Mycoskie

#95. Suddenly she longed for the comfort of books around her. No matter how bad she felt, a library could always make her feel better.

Alexandra Sokoloff

#96. Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.

Rose Christo

#97. Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.

Larry Winget

#98. To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

Rick Perry

#99. The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Samuel Smiles

#100. A man walks into a library and says, 'I hope you don't have a book on reverse psychology.

Henny Youngman