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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 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 All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been--it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. -Carlyle The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. Books--the children of the brain. -Jonathan Swift Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. -Thoreau To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare. -Yosida Kenko It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. -Scott Corbett The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. -Benjamin Franklin The closest we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library. -Ashleigh Brilliant I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges A room without books is as a body without a soul. -Cicero In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read...It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. -S.I. Hayakawa _________________________________________________________________ I used a scrolling marquee screen saver at school that I changed every couple of weeks. Some of the sayings I used were; Books won't crash in the year 2000. People who read always have something interesting to say. Some of my best friends are books. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx. There is intelligent life in the universe. It's right here on Earth. Be part of it -- READ! Giulia Greenberg, Librarian Unadilla Valley Middle School S. New Berlin, NY greenber@ascent.net _______________________________________________________________ Here is one from a German friend of mine: Bitte nicht storen! Ich lese. Do not disturb! I am reading. Jane The Read In! http://www.readin.org ________________________________________________________________ Several respondants sent URL's for Websites with library quotations. They are well worth the time to peruse! <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/humour/subj.htm> <http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/subj.htm> < http://www.infotaft.marioncity.k12.oh.us/read.html> <http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dmsardes/index4.html> Thanks again! Cayla Armatti, Media Specialist Evergreen Elementary Ocala, FL farmatti@praxis.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv For LM_NET Help & Archives see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=