I cannot live without books. - /Thomas Jefferson///
Reading maketh a full man. - /Francis Bacon/
The more that you read, the more things that you know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. /-//Dr Seuss/
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. - /Samuel Johnson/
*A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. - /Alan Ayckbourn/
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. - /Gilbert Highet/
A room without books is like a body without a soul. – /Cicero/
Once you learn to read, you will be free forever. - /Frederick Douglass /
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks. - /Senator Wendell Ford/
Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds. - /Light Armour/
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. - /Samuel Johnson/
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. - /Jo Godwin William Godwin/
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. - /Susanne K. Langer/
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out. - /Alvin Toffler/
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - /Richard Steele/
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - /Mark Twain/
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - /Mortimer J. Adler/
Read in order to live - /Henry Fielding/
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. - /Carl G.
Jung/ My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. - /Judah Ha-Levi/
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. /-//Henry David Thoreau/ Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. - /Harriet Martineau/
"A librarian is far better at doing a literature search than I am. It's their profession." --Dr. Rudi Mueller, Health Canada (retired)
"You should always check the accuracy of quotes you read on the internet." --Abraham Lincoln
"The Internet is a treasure, but it contains plenty of nonsense." --Dr. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Harvard School of Public Health
"A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library." --Frank Westheimer
"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they are just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them." -- Michael Moore
A library without librarians is like a car without fuel. --J. Wesley Judd
Symptoms are cries of the suffering organs. --Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Good science consists of play disguised as work. --E.O. Wilson
Radio is better than television because the pictures are better. --Anon
The striving for wisdom is the second paradise of the world.--Paracelsus
“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” --Douglas Adams
What's the point of a rhetorical question? --Jeremy Hardy
What do we want? Evidence-based science!
When do we want it? After peer review! --Anon
Truth is hard, shallowness is easy. --David Rothkopf
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. --Scout Finch (Harper Lee)
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. --Richard Powers
Keep calm and call a librarian --Anonymous
Be nice to the archivist or she will erase you from history. --Anonymous
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they never existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
Librarians are good for circulation --Anonymous
Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The? --Keith Waterhouse
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. --Jo Godwin
This is a library. Kids and adventurers welcome. All others stay out. --Dean Koontz
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to to those who do not take advantage of their wealth. --Louis L’Amour
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. --Anne Herbert
My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. --Peter Golkin
This quote is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain. --Mark Twain (attrib.)
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. --Terry Pratchett
I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up. --Terry Pratchett
Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse.--African Proverb
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.--Lily Tomlin (attrib)
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
--Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
The logical mind, the precision, is the same that’s involved in math as in lyrics. It’s like a puzzle, to write a song.--Tom Lehrer
