Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.

                              —Neil Gaiman

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

                     —Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

                      —Norman Cousins

A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books — the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

                                 —E.B. White

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

                           —M.T. Anderson

Borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

                           —Charles Lamb

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

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

—Alan Dershowitz

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

—Gareth Roberts

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero