Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old librarian quotes, librarian sayings, and librarian proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.Anonymous
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Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.Richard Scarry
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Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.Brandon Sanderson
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Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.Peter Shaffer
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The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away.Terry Pratchett
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Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need.Judy Blume
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.Neil Gaiman
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Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.Patrick Ness
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Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.Donald A. Barclay
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In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.Karen Joy Fowler
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Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.Spider Robinson
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Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.Marilyn Johnson
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Love with librarians mean love with books.Abid Hussain
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Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.Marilyn Johnson
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Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.R. David Lankes
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.Charles William Eliot
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To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.R. David Lankes
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The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.Melvil Dewey
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The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.Seth Godin
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Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.Peter Morville
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When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.Joan Bauer
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It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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You can take the girl out of the library, but you can't take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.Molly Harper
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Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.Willard Scott
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Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.Charles Medawar
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Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!Charles Ogden
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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.Richard Powers
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The most important asset of any library goes home at night – the library staff.Timothy Healy
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We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.Robert Darnton
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Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.Carole Nelson Douglas