Library Quotes

I need only three things in life –books, books and books - Leo Tolstoy

Books are the Books are the lighthouses lighthouses erected in the erected in the great sea of time.great sea of time.

A room without books A room without books is a body without a is a body without a soulsoul

That is a good book which is That is a good book which is opened with expectation and opened with expectation and closed in profit.closed in profit.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world, the fit inheritance of generations and nations

- Thoreau

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body

Next to acquiring good

friends, the best

acquisition is that of good books

- Colton

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested. - Bacon

No entertainment is so cheap as reading and none so lasting

- Lady Montague

Books are men of higher stature;

The only men that speak aloud

For future time to hear.

- E S Barret

Books are but waste paper Books are but waste paper Unless we spend in action Unless we spend in action the wisdom the wisdom we get from thoughtwe get from thought

- Bulwer- Bulwer

Books are those Books are those faithful mirrors faithful mirrors

that reflect to our mind that reflect to our mind the minds of sages the minds of sages

and heroesand heroes- Gibbon- Gibbon

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.- Joseph Addison

Books are embalmed minds

- Bovee

The books which

help you most are

those which make

you think most.

- Theodore Parker

Show me the books he lovesAnd I shall know the man for better than through

mortal friends - S Weir Mitchell

To read a book for the first time is to make an

acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second

time is to meet an old one. — Anonymous, Chinese saying

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. — Samuel NIGER (1883-1956)

"To read is to empower  To empower is to write  To write is to influence  To Influence is to change  To change is to live." 

~ Jane Evershed ~

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading.

It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,

it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide

kind. It is a moral illumination."

Elizabeth Hardwick 

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.... Children learn to read

being in the presence of books. — Horace MANN (1796-1859)

People will not be better than the books they read.

- Bishop Potter

One sure window into a person's soul is his reading list.

- Mary B. W. Tabor

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past

centuries.- Descartes

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

- Edwin P. Whipple

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

- Cicero

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order,

calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,

light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady,

unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting.

Germaine Greer (1939-____)

The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond

the grave is wisdom.- J. A. Langford