Definition of Library

Library

A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.

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Library Quotations

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield

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

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H. P. Lovecraft

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson

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

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.
Thomas Friedman

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Jorge Luis Borges

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr

Your library is your paradise.
Desiderius Erasmus

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
Matt Damon

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Library Translations

library in Afrikaans is biblioteek
library in Danish is bibliotek
library in Dutch is bibliotheek, boekerij
library in German is Sammlung, bibilothek, Bibliothek
library in Italian is biblioteca
library in Norwegian is bibliotek
library in Portuguese is biblioteca
library in Spanish is biblioteca
library in Swedish is bibliotek

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