| “A library is thought in cold storage.” |
| - Herbert Samuel |
| “The best of my education has come
from the public library... my tuition fee
is a bus fare and once in a while, five
cents a day for an overdue book. You
don’t need to know very much to start
with, if you know the way to the
public library.” |
| - Lesley Conger |
| “Libraries are the one American
institution you shouldn’t rip off.” |
| - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams |
| “As a child, my number one best friend
was the librarian in my grade school. I
actually believed all those books
belonged to her.” |
| - Erma Bombeck |
| “Libraries are the wardrobes of
literature, whence men, properly
informed may bring forth something
for ornament, much for curiosity, and
more for use.” |
| - William Dyer |
| “We may sit in our library and yet be in
all quarters of the earth.” |
| - John Lubbock |
| “The richest person in the world — in
fact all the riches in the world —
couldn’t provide you with anything
like the endless, incredible loot
available at your local library.” |
| - Malcolm Forbes |
| “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 Howe, 1824 |
“Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.” |
| - Richard Armour, “Library” |
| “There is not such a cradle of
democracy upon the earth as the Free
Public Library, this republic of letters,
where neither rank, office, nor wealth
receives the slightest consideration.” |
| - Andrew Carnegie |
| “A truly great library contains
something in it to offend everyone.” |
| - Jo Godwin |
| “What is more important in a library
than anything else — than everything
else — is the fact that it exists.” |
- ~Archibald MacLeish,
“The Premise of Meaning,”
American Scholar, 5 June 1972 |
| “If you have a garden and a library, you
have everything you need.” |
| - Cicero |
