“There are70

million books in America

n Libraries, but the

one I want

is always out.”

Tom Masson

“You see, I do not believe

that libraries

should be drab

places where

people sit in silence, and that

is the main

reason for our policy

of employin

g wild animals

as librarians.

”

Monty Python

Skit

“Librarian is a

service occupatio

n. Gas station

attendant of the mind.”

Richard Powers

The Gold Bug

Variations

“Let books

be your dining table.”

St. Ephrem

the Syrian

“Some books

are to be tasted,

others to be

swallowedand some

few to be chewed

and digested.

”

Francis Bacon

“The current

definitive answer

to almost any

question can be found within

the four walls of

most libraries.

”

Arthur Ashe

“I live for

books.”

Thomas Jefferson

“The worth of a book is

to be measure

d by what you

can carry away

from it.”

James Bryce

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I

want to think, all the walks I want to take, all

the books I want to read, and

all the friends I want to see.”

John Burroug

hs

“A library is not a

luxury but one of the necessities of life.”

Henry Ward

Beecher

“The world is a book

and those

who do not

travel read

only a page.”

St. Augustin

e

“The paperback

is very interesting but I

find it will never

replace the

hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.”

Alfred Hitchcock

“The greatest university of all is

a collectio

n of books.”

Thomas

Carlyle

“Books, like

friends, should be few

and well chosen.

”

Samuel Paterso

n

Libraries keep

the records

on behalf of all

humanity.

Vartan Gregori

an

Books are like

imprisoned souls

till someone

takes them down from a shelf and

frees them.

Samuel

Butler

Books are the

treasured wealth of the world and the

fit inheritanc

e of generatio

ns and nations.

Henry David Thorea

u

Books are the bees

which carry the

quickening pollen from

one to another mind.

James Russel

l Lowell

Books are

humanity in

print.

Barbara Tuchma

n

[A] lawyer without books

would be like a

workman without tools.

Thomas

Jefferson

Libraries are

reservoirs of

strength, grace

and wit, reminder

s of order,

calm and continuit

y...

Germaine

Greer

“Learning is like

rowing upstream; not

to advance is to drop

back.”

Chinese

proverb

“Learning which does

not advance each day will daily decrease.”

Chinese

proverb

“The illiterate

of the 21st century will not

be those who

cannot read and write, but those who

cannot learn,

unlearn, and

relearn.”

Alvin Toffler

“Gold has a price, but learning is priceless.”

Chinese

proverb

“A teacher can but lead

you to the

door; learning is up

to you.”

Chinese

proverb

“It is the object of learning,

not only to satisfy the curiosity

and perfect

the spirits of

ordinary men, but also to

advance civilization.

”

Woodrow

Wilson

“Even if one

studies to an old age, one

will never finish

learning.”

Chinese

proverb