Daily+Library+Quotations

Daily Library Quotations
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September 4

Gratitude is the sign of moral souls. Aesop

September 5

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

September 8

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen

September 9

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

September 10

I find television very educating. Everytime someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx

September 11

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S Lewis

September 15

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. C.S. Lewis

September 16

Some books should be tasted, some devoured but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Francis Bacon

September 18

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. Cassandra Clare

September 19

Books are so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. John Green

September 22

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; and the other, that you boast about it. Bertrand Russell

September 23

Book may well be the only true magic. Alice Hoffman

September 24

Good books don't give up their secrets all at once. Stephen King

September 25

We beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. Roald Dahl

September 26

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. Orhan Pamuk

September 29

Books are like mirrors; if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. J.K Rowling

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">September 30

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. Christopher Molery

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">October 1

If a book about failures doesn't sell; is it a success? Jerry Seinfeld

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">October 2

I do things like get on a taxi and say, " The library. And step on it." David Foster Wallace

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">October 3

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are our very own. Arthur Conan Doyle

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">October 6

A book lying idle on a shelf is like wasted ammunition. Henry Miller

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">October 7

A books must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">October 8

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. E.P Whipple

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">October 9

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. Abraham Lincoln

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">October 10

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all miseries of life. W. Somerset

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">October 15

There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">October 17

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis

October 22

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Philip Stanhope

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">October 23

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none. Sir Francis Bacon in Essays of seditions and troubles.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">October 24

Double trouble, toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble Macbeth

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">October 25

If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just Halloween. Doug Coupland

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">October 29

When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ‘‘Tis near Halloween!’ Author unknown

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">October 30

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">October 31

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, “Tonight is Halloween!” Dexter Kozen

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 1

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Dale Carnegie

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 5

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 7

It’s no disgrace to start all over; it’s usually an opportunity. Charles Darwin

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 8

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 11

Give peace a chance. John Lennon

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 12

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Albert Einstein

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 13

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone’s highlight reel. Steve Furtick

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 14

No two people ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 21

Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. Author Unknown

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 25

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">November 26

Do one thing that scares you every day. Eleanor Roosevelt

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">November 27

We make our own fortunes and call them fate. Benjamin Roosevelt

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 2

It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live. J.K Rowling in Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 3

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Aristotle

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 5

Books are uniquely portable magic. Stephen King

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 6

Maybe it’s not about the happy ending. Maybe it’s about the story. Anonymous

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 9

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading at all. Oscar Wilde

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 10

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 12

The worst thing about reading new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. John Wooden

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 13

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling. Edna Ferber

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 16

It's Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. W.T. Ellis

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 17

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. Janice Maeditere

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">December 18

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. Charles Schulz

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">January 7

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">January 8

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">January 10

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B. F. Skinner

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">January 13

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Joseph Addison

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">January 14

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. Oscar Wilde

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">January 17

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. Ralph Waldo Emerson

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">January 20

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">January 23

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. T.S Eliot

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">January 24

We read to know that we are not alone. William Nicholson, Shadowlands

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">January 27

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">January 28

Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">January 29

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">January 30

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">January 31

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 4

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. François Mauriac

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 5

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! Thomas Babington Macaulay

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 10

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better. George R.R. Martin

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 11

A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 12

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book. Stéphane Mallarmé

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 13

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">W. Somerset Maugham

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 14

We accept the love we think we deserve. Stephen Chbosky

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 20

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 21

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 24

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? David Baldacci

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">February 28

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. Patricia A. McKillip

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">March 3

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">March 5

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. Stephen Fry

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">March 6

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. Napoleon Bonaparte

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">March 17

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't. Gail Carson Levine

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">March 18

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">March 19

I am a part of everything that I have read. Theodore Roosevelt

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">March 25

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. J.K. Rowling

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">March 28

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">March 31

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. Tracy Chevalier

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 1

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21.111112594604492px;">April 2

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. Aphra Behn

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 21.111112594604492px;">April 3

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 7

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 8

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 9

I guess there are never enough books. John Steinbeck

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 14

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Atwood H. Townsend

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 15

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. Anne Herbert

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 16

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. R.L. Stine

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 17

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. Anthony Trollope

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 18

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that. David Tennant

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 23

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 25

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 28

The idea that I'm writing for lots of people has created a general literary and political responsibility. There's pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 29

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. Louisa May Alcott

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">April 30

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. Gustave Flaubert

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 1

My alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 2

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 5

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 7

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. Gary Paulsen

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 9

Picking five favourite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. Neil Gaiman

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 12

Reading brings us unknown friends. Honore de Balzac

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 13

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Karen Marie Monin

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 14

In books I have travelled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. Anna Quindlen

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 15

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. Rita Mae Brown

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 16

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. Abraham Lincoln

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 20

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. Margaret Atwood

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 21

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 22

A book too can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeline L'Engle

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 26

All the best stories in the world are but one reality -- the story of escape. It is the only things which interests us all and at times, how to escape. Arthur Christopher Benson

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 27

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. Arthur Helps

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 28

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. Sherman Alexie

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 29

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. Saul Bellow

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.909090042114258px;">May 30

Be awesome! Be a book nut! Dr. Seuss

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.9090900421143px;">June 2

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted during childhood.

Jane Yolen

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.9090900421143px;">June 3

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.9090900421143px;">June 4

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

P.G. Wodehouse

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.9090900421143px;">June 5

Summer afternoon- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the most beautiful words in the english language.

Henry James

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.9090900421143px;">June 6

"Come with me" mom says. "to the library. books and summertime go together."

Lisa Schroeder, //I Heart You, You Haunt Me//

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.9090900421143px;">June 9

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Summertime will always be the best of what might be.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charles Bowden

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 20.9090900421143px;">June 10

I love how summer wraps it's arms around you like a warm blanket.

Kellie Elmore

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">September 17

When I have a little money, buy books,; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">September 12

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles William Eliot