<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Libraries - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24780]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,   Knows the high art of what and how to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some book there is that she desires to see. Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some book there is that she desires to see. Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.  But thou art deeper read and better skilled:   Come and take choice of all my library,    And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens     Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24766]]></link><description><![CDATA[All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great library contains the diary of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great library contains the diary of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24759]]></link><description><![CDATA[If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24760]]></link><description><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The medicine chest of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The medicine chest of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The richest minds need not large libraries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The richest minds need not large libraries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24753]]></link><description><![CDATA["A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is an arsenal of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24755]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is an arsenal of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library implies an act of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24756]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library implies an act of faith]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4534]]></link><description><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I converse   With the old sages and philosophers;    And sometimes, for variety, I confer     With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;      Calling their victories, if unjustly got,       Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,        Deface their ill-placed statues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4534</guid></item></channel></rss>