Libraries And Librarians Quotes - Page 2

• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Library

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• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Writing

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960

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  A 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 Twain

  War, Names, Memorial

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.146, Purdue University Press

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• The library is the temple of learning.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Library, Temples, Liberated

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• Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

  Patrick Ness

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

  Erma Bombeck

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Life Changing, Imagination, Inspire

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• 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

  Ignorance, Cutting, Science

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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• When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Sleep, Naps, Tough Times

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Reading, Library, Steps

  "O" Magazine, December 2003.

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• 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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Success, Congratulations, Book

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• Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

  Carl Sagan

  Support, Library, Librarian

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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• Don't join the book burners!

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Book, Library, Censorship

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

  Richard Armour

  Voice, People, Mind

  Richard Armour (1961). “A Safari Into Satire”

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• To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Giving, House

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• The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Education, War, Book

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• My alma mater was books, a good library.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Reading, Library

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Rip, Book, Library

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics

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• I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Education, Book

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Education, Sex

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• A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

  Shmuel Niger

  Knowledge, Library, Generations

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