(383 quotes found)
“A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.”
William Osler
“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
“It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.”
Tommy Cooper
“That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library”
Aphra Behn
“A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.”
Arthur Baer
“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
Josh Billings
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.”
Bill Gates
“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
Stephen Fry
“For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.”
