Logo
Quote by Augustine Birrell
Libraries are not made, they grow. - Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

Other quotes by Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell

Category:
Books
Author
Augustine Birrell
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. – Earnest Albert Hooten, The Twilight of Man

Category:
History

Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. – Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History

Category:
History

Life doesnt just happen its constructed through the history of power. And thats something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world thats trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here. – Mike Mills

Category:
History

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. – Henry Steele Commanger, The Nature and the Study of History

Category:
History

Random Quotes

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication. – Lord Byron

Category:
best

Every man has his dignity. Im willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Dignity

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. – Garrett Hardin

Category:
Future

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. – Ogden Nash

Category:
Happiness