(383 quotes found)
“Come, and take choice of all my library,And so beguile thy sorrow.”
William Shakespeare
“I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.”
Luigi Barzine
“It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library.”
Yeardley Smith
“Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.”
Vartan Gregorian
“Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Cicero
“Libraries have been heavy users of technology forever and this is just the next way that we're going to provide information. It's really is a relationship not a battle that we have with the internet.”
Rob Everett
“Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars”
John Lubbock
