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"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the national League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched." »John K. Hutchens
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"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." »Mark Twain
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"In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." »Thomas Szasz
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"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." »Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
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"My library
Was dukedom large enough." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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"A library is an arsenal of liberty." »Unknown
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"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library." »Frank Zappa
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"Walking is man's best medicine." »Hippocrates
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"Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him." »Harry Emerson Fosdick
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"A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No medicine cures what happiness cannot." »Gabrid Garcia Marquez
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"Regimen is superior to medicine." »Voltaire
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"The miserable have no other medicine But only hope." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." »Lord Byron
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"It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week." »Gareth Roberts
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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." »Conan Doyle
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"From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class" »Med Jones
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"Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some..." »Jacqui Webb
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"Written words in solitary are medicine." »Sharon Greatwood Callen
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"No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." »Groucho Marx
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library." »Samuel Johnson
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"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine." »William Osler
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"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." »John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
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"Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die." »Deborah Martin
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"Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health." »Thomas Tusser
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