A library is thought in cold storage.
Herbert Samuel

A man’s library is a sort of harem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nutrimentum spiritus food for the soul.
Berlin Royal Library

Libraries_ The medicine chest of the soul.
Thebes Library

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
Jo Godwin

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
Richard Powers

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Shelby Foote

A great library contains the diary of the human race.
George Mercer Dawson

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

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.
Sholem Asch

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Cicero

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
Barbara Kingsolver

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
John Lubbock

A library is but the soul’s burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
Henry Ward Beecher

There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
Tom Masson

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.
Timothy Healy

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.
William Dyer

The richest person in the world – in fact all the riches in the world – couldn’t provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.
Malcolm Forbes

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Andrew Carnegie

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
Lemony Snicket

Th’ first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr’m time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th’ shelf is th’ main thing.
Finley Peter Dunne

Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.
Charles Medawar

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Erma Bombeck

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
Germaine Greer

Shera’s Two Laws of Cataloging: Law _1 No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law _2 No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.
Jesse Shera-1977