Awesome Quotes

From the first link in the previous thread.

For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye.

— Curse Against Book Stealers
Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona

This next one actually strikes me, I have been afraid to read something that someone claimed would change my life:

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
— Sutton Elbert GRIGGS (1872-1930)

Something I wish would be done less, in other (non-libary) circumstances:

Classification, broadly defined, is the act of organizing the universe of knowledge into some systematic order. It has been considered the most fundamental activity of the human mind.
— “Cataloguing and Classification: An Introduction”
Lois Mai Chan

Teehee:

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.”
— Clare Booth LUCE

Reminds me of the time I called my sister a bastard:

‘Children, don’t speak so coarsely,’ said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters’ speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.
— Tempest Tost
Robertson DAVIES

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
— Life of Johnson. From James Boswell, April 6, 1775.
Samuel JOHNSON (1709-1784)