"Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too, that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence."
~ Jan Morris ~

Quotes about books, libraries and reading
Books & Reading

"To read is to empower 
To empower is to write 
To write is to influence 
To Influence is to change 
To change is to live." 
~ Jane Evershed ~
More than a Tea Party

Library quotes & sayings

Quotes about "books" or "reading"

Reading Quotes

More Resource Links:
Quotes about Reading

• http://en.thinkexist.com/quotations/reading/
• http://zaadz.com/quotes/topics/reading/

  Quotes about Books

• http://www.amusingquotes.com/h/b/Books_1.htm
• http://zaadz.com/quotes/topics/books/

  Quotes about Bookmarks

• http://www.miragebookmark.ch/wb_bookmark_quotes.htm

More Quotes on Reading
and
http://shubhayan.com/quotes/reading.htm

Famous Library & Librarian Quotes & Quotations

Writers on Books & Reading & Creativity

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination."
Elizabeth Hardwick 

"Books do furnish a room."
Anthony Powell 

Quotes to inspire - and motivate - Books & Reading
Inspiring Quotes - about BOOKS
http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/subjects/quotes_booksandreading.html

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

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." 
Frank Zappa

"A library should be like a pair of open arms."
 Roger Rosenblatt
 

Famous Library and Librarian Quotes & Quotations
http://www.useful-information.info/quotations/library_quotes.html

Quotes to inspire and motivate - Libraries
Inspiring Quotes - about LIBRARIES

ALA Quotable quotes about Libraries

Jewish quotations about books and reading
Quotes - Books & Reading

ALL THE "COOL QUOTES" FROM EX LIBRIS
ExLibris is the weekly ezine for Library folks, by Marylaine Block

From IFLA - quotes about Librarians and Libraries
Humorous Quotes

Library Juice
Collected Quotes of the Week

The Laughing Librarians
Quotes for Librarian EMail Signature Files

A Collection of Librarian Quotations
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/StatBook/libquot2.html

Visit my Library Humor Resources Page
Some Humor WebSites may have "Quotes" 

LitQuotes
Excerpt quoted from website:
If you love literature or quotations this is the place for you!  
This site features literary quotes from the great works of literature. 
http://www.litquotes.com/

Quotes on reading, education or literacy 
http://www.oregonliteracy.org/features/remarks.shtml

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. 
The human mind is our fundamental resource."
John F. Kennedy

"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education."
Mark Twain 

Book - with quotations
The Librarian's Companion
by Vladimir F. Wertsman
Hardcover - 248 pages 2nd edition, 
Greenwood Publishing Group; 
ISBN: 0313299757 Barnes & Noble - Price: $65.00
Book Description
The first edition of this work, which was included in Eugene Sheehy's 
Guide to Reference Books (10th ed.), became an indispensable 
snapshot of the state of librarianship and publishing around the world. 
This revised edition, an update and expansion of the original volume, 
offers almost 1,000 entries compared to the 644 entries of the first edition.
Included are entries detailing the book trade in individual countries, 
biographical profiles, quotations about books and librarianship, 
and representations of book people in fiction and postage stamps. 
This revised edition also provides much new information on topics 
such as Latin terminology, job search strategies, and awards and grants. 

"I like being around books. It makes me feel civilized. 
The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read."
~ Tom Clancy ~

The Quotable Book Lover
ed. by Ben Jacobs & Helena Hjalmarsson 
ISBN 1-55821-882-3
Quoted from Library Journal V. 124 no. 14
"Library staff and Administrators might want to scan the 
book for quotations to use in promotional literature, 
for funding appeals,on library bookmarks, screensavers or web sites...."
Less than $20 at Barnes & Noble
Great Gift Idea - for "Your" Library, FROM YOU!

Micellaneous Related:

Excerpt quoted from website
A Curse on Book Thieves 
http://www.litterascripta.com/bibliomania/curses.shtml
It was traditional, particularly before the invention of the printing press when books were all hand written manuscripts, to letter a curse into the book to prevent theft. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have worked very well, as the books also had to be chained into place. Even chains had limited effect. Witness the many ancient libraries where there are still chains in place -- but no books. 
Read the curses

Literature, libertines and Lenin's wife: famous people and libraries
Looking at famous people as librarians
http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/papers/famouslb.htm

On These Walls - Inscriptions & Quotations
in the buildings of
The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/loc/walls/history.html

MANIFESTO OF AVANT-GARDE LIBRARIANSHIP
http://susanthelibrarian.tripod.com/manifesto.htm

General resources for locating "quotations" on anything

Related Note: I have a webpage on my Teas2Dine4 site with
internet resource links for Quotes, Sayings, Verses, Poems, and much more for
Crafters, Scrapbooking and useful to anyone needing something to say
http://www.teas2dine4.com/4sayingsnquotes.html

Bartleby
Excerpt Quoted from website:
Familiar Quotations 
A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to 
Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature 
http://www.bartleby.com/100/

Dictionary of Quotations
http://www.quotationreference.com/

Famous Quotations
http://www.famous-quotations.com/

Famous Quotes & Quotations
http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/

LibrarySpot - Quotations Resources
http://www.libraryspot.com/quotations.htm

Quoteland
http://www.quoteland.com/

Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/

Quotation Archive
By Topic
http://webpages.ainet.com/gosner/quotationsarch/topic.htm

Quotation Center
http://cybernation.com/victory/quotations/directory.html

Quote World

World of Quotes

Dictionary of Quotations

Famous Quotes & Sayings - Search Center

BrainyQuote.com
Excerpt "quoted" from website
Over 35,000 quotes by 8,000 authors from Aristotle to Zappa! Browse by topic.
http://www.brainyquote.com/

Movie Quotes from Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Quotes/

Greatest Quotes from Great Films
One of the reasons we like films so much is for memorable lines, 
such as "I'll be back," or "Bond...James Bond" 
There's a Top 10 list of the greatest lines. 
The quote's origin isn't listed, but a yellow star appears next to each one. 
If you want to see who uttered the famous line in question,
simply click the star. 
http://www.filmsite.org/moments0.html 

Now how about some Useless Movie Quotes

Advertising "Quotes"
variety of quotes concerning some aspect or effect of advertising
http://advertising.utexas.edu/research/quotes/

A dictionary of Scientific Quotations
http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html

Quotable Women
www.wendy.com/women/quotations.html

Browse the Bible (King James version)
http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/kjv/

Yahoo! Reference: Quotations - searchable by word, phrase, or author. 

From the website "Creative Quotations"
http://www.creativequotations.com

A newspaper is a circulating library
with high blood pressure.
Bugs Baer (1886-1969) U.S. journalist,
In "Correct Quotes for DOS,"
WordStar International, 1991. 

.. . . if those only wrote, who were
sure of being read, we should have
fewer authors;
and the shelves of libraries
would not groan beneath the weight
of dusty tomes more voluminous
than luminous.
Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789-1849)
English socialite, writer
"The Confessions of an Elderly Lady," 1838. 

I have always imagined that Paradise 
will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Argentine poet, short-story writer
In "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,"
ed. Robert Byrne, 1988. 

If past history was all there
was to the game, the richest people would
be librarians.
Warren Buffett (1930-____) U.S. business executive
In "Washington Post." 

I learned 3 important things in college
to use a library, to memorize quickly
and visually, to drop asleep any
time given a horizontal surface
and 15 minutes.
What I could not learn
was to think
creatively on schedule.
Agnes George DeMille (1905-____)
U.S. dancer, choreographer
"Dance to the Piper," 1952. 

Life 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 Fosdick (1878-1969)
U.S. clergyman In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase,"
ed. Keith Mohler, 1994. 

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.
The pleasure they give is steady,
unorgastic, reliable,
deep and long-lasting.
Germaine Greer (1939-____)
"Daddy, We Hardly Knew You,"
"Still in Melbourne, January 1987," 1989. 

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots
[tribal poets] of Africa --
where today it is rightly said
that when a griot dies,
it is as if a library has burned
to the ground.
Alex Haley (1921-1992) U.S. novelist, journalist
"We must honor our Ancestors,"
in "Ebony," Aug 1986. 

The great British Library -- 
one of these sequestered pools of obsolete
literature to which modern authors repair,
and draw buckets full of classic lore,
or "pure English, undefiled"
wherewith to swell their own
scanty rills of thought.
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
U.S. short-story writer, essayist
"The Sketch-Book," "The Art of Book-Making," 1819-20. 

If I were founding a university
I would begin with a smoking room;
next a dormitory;
and then a decent reading
room and a library.
After that, if I still had more money that I
couldn't use, I would hire a professor
and get some text books.
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) Canadian author,
In "Correct Quotes for DOS,"
WordStar International, 1991. 

My Alma mater was books, a good library
I could spend the rest
of my life reading,
just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X (1925-1965) U.S. political activist
"Autobiograhy of Malcolm X." 

Yes, there's such a thing as luck
in trial law but it only comes at
3 o'clock in the morning
You'll still find me in the library
looking for luck at 3 o'clock
in the morning.
Louis Nizer (1902-1994) English lawyer
In "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,"
by James B. Simpson, 1988. 

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning,
is a beast of burden
with a load of books.
Does the ass comprehend whether
he carries on his back
a library or a bundle of faggots?
Moslih Eddin Saadi (1184-1291)
Persian poet
In "Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips,"
MCR software, 1995. 

As the biggest library if it
is in disorder is not as useful
as a small but well-arranged one,
so you may accumulate a
vast amount of knowledge
but it will be of far less value
than a much smaller amount
if you have not thought it
over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
German philosopher
"Parerga and Paralipomena,"
vol. 2, ch. 22, sct. 257, 1851. 

When I step into this library,
I cannot understand why I ever step
out of it.
Marie de Sevigne (1626-1696) French diarist
"Letters of Madame de Sevigne 
to Her Daughter and Friends," 1811. 

Even in life [Sinclair Lewis]
was fully alive only in his writing.
He lives in public libraries
from Maine to California, in worn copies 
in the bookshelves of women from small
towns who, in their girlhood,
imagined themselves as Carol Kennicotts.
. . Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961)
U.S. journalist, writer
"The Boy from Sauk Center," Atlantic, Nov 1960. 

If truth is beauty, how come no one has
their hair done in a library?
Lily Tomlin (1939-____) U.S. actress,
comedienne
In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase,"
ed. Keith Mohler, 1994. 

To a historian libraries are food,
shelter, and even muse.
Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) U.S. historian
"Practising History," "The Houses of Research,"
1981.

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