Logo
A mans library is a sort of harem. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mans library is a sort of harem. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Libraries
category

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

Category:
Libraries

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Libraries

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – Shelby Foote

Category:
Libraries

Every man should have a library. The works of the grandest masters of literature may now be procured at prices that place them within the reach almost of the very poorest, and we may all put Parnassian singing birds into our chambers to cheer us with the sweetness of their songs. – William E.A. Axon, October 1867

Category:
Libraries

Random Quotes

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Category:
Age

I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. Theyre really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. Theyre amazing. – Kristen Stewart

Category:
amazing

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Category:
Music

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. – Pierre Corneille

Category:
Happiness