Library quote of the day

'I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library'

'The Great Gatsby', Ch. 3.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Novelist (1896-1940),

Library quote of the day

'The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one’

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet (1807-1882)

Library quote of the day

'The true University of these days is a Collection of Books'
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist & historian (1797-1881)

Library quote of the day

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge

Norman Mailer - American Novelist (1923-2007)

Library quote of the day

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed

Francis BACON, English Philosopher (1561-1626)

Library Quote of the day

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

Jorge Luis Borges

Library quote of the day

'When we run over libraries persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion'

David Hume, Scottish Philosopher