Why We Need Libraries

A lot of truth is said in jest. - Eminem

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies. - Suzette Haden Elgin

Oil and truth will get uppermost at last. - Proverb

Oh, so they have internet on computers now! - Homer Simpson

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. - African Proverb

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie. - Russian Proverb

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. - Mel Brooks

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden. - James Herbert

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. - John 8:32

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. - David Halberstam

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action. - Charles William Eliot

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth. - Albert Camus

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - Lily Tomlin

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. - Leo Tolstoy

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. - Sonia Sanchez

Truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent. - William Blake

My way of joe-king is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - Laurence J Peter

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. - Joseph Joubert

You said you have a dream. Make your wonderful dream a reality, and it will become your truth. - Pokemon

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. - Katherine Anne Porter

Another good thing about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said. - Unknown

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. - George Saunders

It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you're an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel Goldwyn

The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth. - Albert Einstein

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. - Rodney Dangerfield

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it. - Samuel Pepys

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes. - Margaret Mahy

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F Kennedy

Too many young folk have an addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love. - Cornel West