Re: Website with library quotes? LONG

[Debra Logan <jd3logan@bright.net>]

> Does anyone know the URL for the website devoted to library-related
> quotations? Thanks, George.
>
> George Boyer
> Librarian
> Winans School
>
Dear George & LM_NETTERS,

        I do not but I do have some library, book , and reading
quotations that I type into my computer & saved a couple of years ago.
I thought that they could be helpful.  Here they are:


LIBRARY QUOTATIONS


 The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which
makes you think.
      James McCosh

 A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
      Chinese proverb

 Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for
your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as
the latter.
      Paxton Hood

 Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
      Charles Kingsley

 To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge
from almost all of the miseries of life.
W.  Somerset Maugham

 He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
      John Milton

 Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
      John Witherspoon

 What’s a book?  Everything or nothing.  The eye that sees it all.
      Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

      Heinrich Heine

 A library is a hospital for the mind.
      Anonymous

 Don’t join the book burners…Don’t be afraid to go in your library and
read every book.
      Dwight D. Eisenhower

 Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so
beautifully furnishes a house.
      Henry Ward Beecher

 Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
      Richard Steele

 Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 I divide all readers into two classes:  Those who read to remember and
those who read to forget.
      William Phelps

 I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me.
I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course
of my life.  As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some
long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
      Malcolm X

 If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books
he reads.
      Ralph Waldo Emerson

 In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived
more than people who cannot or will not read.
S.  I. Hayakawa

 It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different
dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different
books which have made him wise.  Let us see the results of good food in
a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful
mind.
      Sydney Smith

 Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our
studies may point.  The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
      Edward Gibbon

 There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on
Treasure Island.
      Walt Disney

 The more that you read,
 the more things you will know.
 The more that you learn,
 the more places you’ll go.
    Dr. Seuss

 There is no Frigate like a Book
 To take us Lands away,
 Nor any Coursers like a Page
 Of prancing Poetry…
    Emily Dickinson

 Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single
sentence.  If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt
at the end of the year.
      Horace Mann


Readers may be divided into four classes:
1.)  Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in
    nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.
2.)  Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content
    to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time.
3.)  Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read.
4.)  Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by
 what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self
activity.
      Thomas Carlyle

 The way a book is read- which is to say, the qualities a reader brings
to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author
puts into it.
      Norman Cousins

 Those who don’t read have no advantage over those who can’t.
      Mark Twain

 To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge
from almost all the miseries of life.
W.  Somerset Maugham

 To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
      Edmund Burke

 We shouldn’t teach great books;  we should teach a love of reading.
B.  F. Skinner

 The end of reading is not more books but more life.
      Holbrook Jackson

 Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but
still attached to life at all four corners.
      Virginia Woolf

 Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other
perpetual.
      Socrates

 Reading maketh a full man.
     Francis Bacon

   My library
Was dukedom large enough.
    William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends
imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
     Ralph Waldo Emerson

 When I… discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
      Jean Fritz

 When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
      Rita Mae Brown

 The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which
you can go without credentials… You don’t even need the sticker on your
windshield that you need to get into the public beach.  All you need is
the willingness to read.
      Harry Golden

 I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
      Jorge Luis Borges

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
     John Naisbitt

A library should be like a pair of open arms.
     Roger Rosenblatt

[The library] is like a place of sacredness.  If we were fools at
onetime,
perhaps we will not be fools tomorrow, if we study.
      Chief Tom Porter

 The libraries have become my candy store.
      Juliana Kimball

 A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is
that you can take it to bed with you.
      Daniel J. Boorstin

 I’ve traveled the world twice over,
 Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners,
I’ve been where no-one’s been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks
All with one library ticket
To the wonderful world of books.
   Unknown

Knowledge is knowing—or knowing where to find out.
     Alvin Toffler

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky.
My pile of books
Are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I’ll have along beard
By the time I read them.
  Arnold Lobel

None is poor save him that lacks knowledge.
     The Talmud

 An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
      Benjamin Franklin

 And still I am learning.
      Michelangelo Buonarotti

 All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains
unknown.
      William Harvey

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Sincerely,
Deb Logan
Librarian/Media Specialist Taft Middle School
Marion, OH
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