Showing posts with label The Quotable Book Lover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Quotable Book Lover. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The Quotable Book Lover

* "Medicine for the soul."
Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes.

*The Quotable Book Lover, edited by Ben Jacobs & Helena Hjalmarsson

Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Quotable Book Lover

*"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

*The Quotable Book Lover, edited by Ben Jacobs & Helena Hjalmarsson

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Quotable Book Lover - Library


* "Medicine for the soul."
Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes.

 "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
Salman Rushdie
Imaginary Homelands (1992)

"Here is where people, One frequently finds,
Lower their voices And raise their minds."
~Richard Armour, "Library"

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

*The Quotable Book Lover, edited by Ben Jacobs & Helena Hjalmarsson

Monday, April 16, 2012

Library Quote

"Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds."
~Richard Armour, "Library"

Saturday, May 28, 2011

The Quotable Book Lover

* "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
Salman Rushdie
Imaginary Homelands (1992)

*The Quotable Book Lover, edited by Ben Jacobs & Helena Hjalmarsson

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The Quotable Book Lover

"For books are more than books. They are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Monday, May 23, 2011

The Quotable Book Lover

*"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest." Lady Bird Johnson
*The Quotable Book Lover, edited by Ben Jacobs & Helena Hjalmarsson

Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Quotable Book Lover

*"What in the world would we do without our libraries?"
Katharine Hepburn (1909- 2003)

*The Quotable Book Lover