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Library Quotes & Jokes

Love books and libraries?  We do too!  Here are some library quotes and jokes for your enjoyment.  If you have a funny quote or joke to add to the list, please let us know.

  • Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. -Richard Powers
  • Be nice to the archivist or she will erase you from history.  -Anonymous
  • Don’t join the book burners.  Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they never existed.  Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.  -Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Librarians are good for circulation -Anonymous
  • Beauty is only a light switch away. -Graffiti in the Perkins Library of Duke University
  • Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The? -Keith Waterhouse
  • This is a library.  Kids and adventurers welcome.  All others stay out. -Dean Koontz
  • Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. -Anne Herbert
  • My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles.  They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. -Peter Golkin
  • What building has the most stories? The library!