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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.
Sep 13, 2025
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Libraries are our friends.
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Libraries are the future of reading.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
Libraries are not made, they grow.
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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.
My alma mater was books, a good library.
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.