Can anybody give me some quotations on library???

Question

Guys i am in need of some quotations or slogans which can be hung in the library and which could help in inculcating the reading habits to the people who visit the library... please help me... some inspiring quotes or slogans would do good...

Answer 1

"He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes."

Barrow

Answer 2

The true university these days is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
- Judah ibn-Tibbon (12th century)

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
- Cicero

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
- Alexander Smith

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. - Lady Bird Johnson

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.
- Thomas Jefferson

A library is thought in cold storage.
- Herbert Samuel

Libraries are not made; they grow.
- Augustine Birrell

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

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
- Barbara Tuchman

My library
Was dukedom large enough.
- Shakespeare, The Tempest

Your library is your portrait.
- Holbrook Jackson

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge! It blossoms through the year!
- Richard Brainsley Sheridan

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me,
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
- Shakespeare, The Tempest

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Samuel Johnson

I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all of the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.
- Luigi Barzini

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
- Virginia Woolf

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
- James Boswell

The dissemination of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of civilization.
- John F. Budd

Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Answer 3

Here are a few links that may help you out...

http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/subj.htm

http://www.useful-information.info/quotations/library_quotes.html

http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/quotes/libquotesac.html

Good luck!

Answer 4

who said "knowlege is power"

Answer 5

..... Wear the old coat and buy the new book..........