(373 quotes found)
“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
“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
“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
Saul Bellow
“Why by a book when you can join a library.”
Ricky Gervais
“Some men have only one book in them, others a library”
Proverb
“Libraries are not made, they grow”
Augustine Birrell
“Your library is your portrait.”
Holbrook Jackson
“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.”
William Shakespeare
“Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.”
Barbara Kingsolver