Library Quotes

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend.  Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.  ~Groucho Marx

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.  ~Oscar Wilde

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.  ~Bern Williams

A book is a present you can open over and over again. ~ Unknown

TV.  If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six.  Open your child’s imagination.  Open a book.  ~Author Unknown

Books can be dangerous.  The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”  ~Helen Exley

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown

A house without books is like a room without windows.  ~Heinrich Mann

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.  ~Andrew Ross

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know:  to touch words and have them touch you back.  ~Jim Fiebig

 Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.       ~P.J. O’Rourke

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.  ~Mark Twain, attributed

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.  ~William Lyon Phelps

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.  ~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.  It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.  ~Holbrook Jackson

Never judge a book by its movie.  ~J.W. Eagan

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.                             ~Mary Wortley Montague

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.  ~W. Somerset Maugham

 Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.  Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.  ~Christopher Morley

Book lovers never go to bed alone.  ~Author Unknown

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. ~Neil Gaiman

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators ~Stephen Fry

No two persons ever read the same book. ~Edmund Wilson

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.                             ~Mary Wortley Montagu

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ~Augustine Birrell

One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else’s imaginary friends, at all hours of the night. ~Dr. SunWolf

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.               ~J.K. Rowling

 

 

 

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