Libraries Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old libraries quotes, libraries sayings, and libraries proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. Albert Einstein
The richest minds need not large libraries. Amos Bronson Alcott
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. Andrew Carnegie
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
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists. Archibald MacLeish
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. Carl T. Rowan
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles William Eliot
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. Frank Zappa
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature. George Dyer
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. Germaine Greer
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. Gilles Menage
Read in order to live. Gustave Flaubert
Your library is your portrait. Holbrook Jackson
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. Jacques Ellul
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day. Jean Fritz
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. John F. Kennedy
I love vast libraries yet there is a doubt If one be better with them or without, unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read. John Godfrey Saxe
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison
What in the world would we do without our libraries? Katharine Hepburn
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. Keith Richards
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interesting. Lady Bird Johnson
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection for it, and it only is respected by wars and revolutions and survives them. Mark Twain
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer. Newell Dwight Hillis
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Richard De Bury
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. Rita Dove
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Samuel Johnson