[Publib] book quotes

Tue May 20 13:45:32 EDT 2008

My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some
blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still."
~ Charlton Heston 

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who
cannot read them. Mark Twain

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. - Gennaine Greer

Books to the ceiling,/ Books to the sky,/ My pile of books is a mile high./
How I love them! How I need them!/ I'll have a long beard by the time I read
them.  -  <blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/39056.html> Arnold
Lobel

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who
shares the same books. - Katherine Mansfield 

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic
preservation in the pages of books. - Thomas Carlyle

 <blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33471.html> When I step into
this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
<blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Marie_de_Sevigne/> Marie de
Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003

 <blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/22181.html> I have always
imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
<blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jorge_Luis_Borges/> Jorge
Luis Borges (1899 - 1986) 

 <blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2008.html> Books are the
quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and
wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
<blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_W._Eliot/> Charles W.
Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896 

 <blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29711.html> Most new books
are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
<blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Evan_Esar/> Evan Esar (1899 -
1995) 

 <blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/713.html> Outside of a dog, a
book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
<blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Groucho_Marx/> Groucho Marx
(1890 - 1977)  

"Pennsylvania's libraries, museums, and historic sites are the guardians of
pioneer ideas and achievements that guide us toward the future. The
treasures they hold preserve our freedoms and fill our lives with knowledge,
opportunity, and a connection to our past."   - Michele M. Ridge, former
First Lady of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

 <blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/4896.html> Reading furnishes
the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we
read ours.   <blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/John_Locke/>
John Locke (1632 - 1704)

 <blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1488.html> Do give books -
religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening. . .
<blocked::http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Lenore_Hershey/> Lenore
Hershey   

Andrea 

Andrea Berstler - Director 
The Village Library of Morgantown 
PO Box 797, 207 N Walnut St 
Morgantown, PA 
 <http://www.villagelibrary.org/> www.villagelibrary.org 
610-286-1022 
Preserving the Past . . . Preparing for the Future . . . 
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right
pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.  ~Rick
Maksian

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Faulkner, David
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:55 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] book quotes

When we moved into our new library four years ago I had to make signs for
the end of the ranges. In our fiction area I decided to include a quote at
the top of the sign by an author whose last name would fall into that range.
Thus I have my favorite quote by Groucho Marx on the Fic Mar-Mic section
sign so that it looks like:

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. 
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." 
~ Grouch Marx

Fic
Mar
-
Mic

What's your favorite book-related quote?

I'll compile the list for anyone that want's it.

David
Austin, TX
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