... the people's palace. - Norman MailerA library implies an act of faith. - Victor Hugo L'Annee TerribleA library is a hospital for the mind. Anonymous A library is knowledge and knowledge is eternal, it never dies. - Beverly Tona & Hazel C. TaylorA library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. - Henry Ward BeecherA man will turn over half a library to make one book. - Samuel Johnson A novel is a chance to try on a different life for size - Marion GarrettyA real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. - Alan AyckbournA room without books is like a body without a soul. CiceroA truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. - Jo Godwin William GodwinAn investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin Book lovers never go to bed alone. UnknownBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. - Henry Ward Beecher Books invite all; they constrain none. - Los Angeles Public LibraryEducation is more than preparation for life, it is life itself. - Melvil DeweyEven God cannot alter the way a search engine works. - Employee of Indian portal site Rediff.com Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertude SteinExcept a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. - Charles Kingsley Grow up on the Internet, get off on t.v. - Sleater-Kinney Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds. - Light ArmourI cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now - only that place where the books are kept. - John SteinbeckIf information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks. - Senator Wendell FordIf we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. - Susanne K. LangerInformation doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable. - Larry Wall It is better to read a thousand books than go on a journey of a thousand miles - old Chinese saying.It's no use going to school unless the library is your final destination. - Ray BradburyKnowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container. - Tracy ParadisKnowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out. - Alvin Toffler Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. - Samuel JohnsonKnowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes. PanchatantraKnowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. - Carl G. Jung Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. Japanese proverb Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. - Dionysius the Elder

Librarians are wonderful people. They should be in the detective business. - The Chinese Doll, by Wilson TuckerLibraries are the key to ensuring that the divide between information rich and poor is kept as narrow as possible. - Senator Lyn AllisonLife is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson FosdickMy pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. - Judah Ha-Levi Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. - John WitherspoonNo entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu None is poor save him that lacks knowledge. - The Talmud Once you learn to read, you will be free forever. - Frederick Douglass Read in order to live - Henry FieldingRead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. - Henry David ThoreauReaders are plentiful; thinkers are rare. - Harriet MartineauReading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Mortimer J. Adler Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. - Margaret Fuller quotes Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. - Charles Scribner, Jr. quotes Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. - Sir Arthur Helps Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own - Arthur Schopenhauer Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Richard SteeleReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Richard Steele Reading maketh a full man. - Francis Bacon Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ConfuciusScience is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else. - Donald Knuth Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Confucius Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. - George Bernard Shaw Silence is the mother of truth. - Benjamin Disraeli Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested. - Francis BaconThe best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. - Thomas CarlyleThe book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. James McCosh The end of reading is not more books but more life. - Holbrook Jackson The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. - Jacques EllulThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark TwainThe more that you read,the more things that you know.The more that you learn,the more places you'll go. - Dr Seuss The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who can't read them. - Mark TwainThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. Descartes There are many ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. - Gilbert HighetToday a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Dr. Seuss quotes We read to know we are not alone. - C.S. Lewis When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de SevigneWhere is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T. S. EliotYour library is your portrait. - Holbrook Jackson