1. “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
2. “What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists.” ― Archibald MacLeish
3. “I don’t have to look far to find treasures. I discover them every time I visit a library.” ― Michael Embry
4. “The best of my education has come from the public library… my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.” ― Lesley Conger
5. “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” ― Frank Zappa
6. “Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague.” ― Eleanor Crumblehulme
7. “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” ― Lemony Snicket
8. “The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” ― Albert Einstein
9. “In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.” ― Henry Rollins
10. “The richest person in the world – in fact all the riches in the world – couldn’t provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.” ― Malcolm Forbes
11. “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.” ― John Lubbock
12. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
13. “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” ― Ray Bradbury
14. “No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.” ― Samuel Johnson
15. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.” ― Samuel Johnson
16. “Your library is your paradise.” ― Desiderius Erasmus
17. “A library implies an act of faith.” ― Victor Hugo
18. “To build up a library is to create a life.” ― Carlos Maria Dominguez
19. “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.” ― Andrew Carnegie
20. “Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.” ― Robin Sharma
21. “To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversations that makes up our civilization.” ― Timothy Healy
22. “Library fines are my favorite charitable donation.” ― Terri Guillemets
23. “The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.” ― Henry Rollins
24. “The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport and a library card.” ― E.L. Doctorow
25. “Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.” ― Henri Frederic Amiel
26. “Why buy a book when you can join a library?” – Ricky Gervais
27. “Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.” ― Charles Bukowski
28. “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” ― Gorge Luis Borges
29. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” ― Anne Herbert
30. “Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague.” ― Eleanor Crumblehulme
31. “Libraries are not a destination. They are the transportation. The Grand Central Station of every great city and town.” ― Unknown
32. “Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.” ― Barbara Kingsolver
33. “Who doesn’t love a library? It is a place you can go in any town and discover the world.” ― Pat MacEnulty
