library quotes

'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.
-Robertson Davies (Tempest Tost)

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

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

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
-Lily Tomlin

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
-Carl T. Rowan

I didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group ... You think they're just sitting at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
-Michael Moore

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
-Barbara Kingsolver

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
-Isaac Asimov

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-Groucho Mark

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-John F. Kennedy