I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where`s the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose
- George CarlinI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis BorgesWithout libraries what have we? We have no past and no future
- Ray BradburyIf truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.
- Lily TomlinA public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them
- Mark TwainA library implies an act of faith
- Victor HugoThat perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library
- Aphra BehnThe library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
- Carl T. Rowan"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
- Henry Ward BeecherYour library is your portrait.
- Holbrook JacksonNo university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
- Lawrence Clark PowellI 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 BarzineIf you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero