(383 quotes found)
“Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one”
Augustine Burrell
“A man's library is a sort of harem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
Isaac Asimov
“If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.”
Judith Martin
“The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.”
Phyllis Schlafly
“A library card, ... An adult library card.”
Bobby Darin
“When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.”
Marie de Sevigne
“There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.”
Thomas L. Masson
“What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?”
John Ruskin
“Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
