Carolyn Wells Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• ... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

  Carolyn Wells

  Eye, Library, Wish

• To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

  Carolyn Wells

  Apology, Pride, Fire

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

• It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Library, Interest

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

• To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

  Carolyn Wells

  Fire, Two, Library

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

• There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

  Carolyn Wells

  Friendship, Book, Giving

• I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Thinking

• ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Mind

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