1.Mark Twain: "Age is mostly a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
2.Meindert Dejong (in The Wheel on the School): "... first to dream and then to do -- isn't that the way to make a dream come true?"
3.Bibliophile book catalogue: "If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?"
4.Bibliophile book catalogue: "Tact: getting your point across without stabbing someone with it."
5.Digest: "One of the greatest mistakes in life is to fear continually you will make one."
6.Bibliophile book catalogue: "No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
7.Stephen Orchard: "You must forgive in order to live."
8.May V. Smith: "The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary."
9.Notice in office: "The easiest way to make ends meet is to get off your own."
10.Bibliophile book catalogue: "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness."
11.Confucius: "Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous."
12.Joan Baez (singer): "I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"
13.Thoreau: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
14.Mark Twain: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
15.Emerson: "No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous."
16.Albert Einstein: "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
17.Henry Ford: "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
18.Bibliophile catalogue no 201: "Always use tasteful words - you may have to eat them."
Children
1.Katherine Whitehorn: "Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally."
2.William Feather: "Setting a good example to children takes all the fun out of middle age."
3.Elbert Hubbard: "The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher."
4.Roger Lewin: "Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
5.Chinese proverb: "A child's life is like a piece of paper, on which every person leaves a mark."
History and War
1.A.J.P. Taylor: "Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."
2.Bibliophile book catalogue: "The first casualty of war is truth."
3.Aldous Huxley: "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
4.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: "What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
5.Enoch Powell: "History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen."
6.Aldous Huxley: "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individuals are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder and be murdered in quarrels not their own."
7.Balaam: "I have seen men trying to teach history who hardly knew whether the Armada was a town in Brazil or the winner of the Derby!"
8.George Bernard Shaw (in The Devil's Disciple): "The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
9.Dionysius of Halicarnassus: "History is philosophy drawn from examples."
Science and Technology
1.Morris Cohen (American scientist): "Science is a flickering light in our darkness, but it is the only one we have and woe to him who would put it out.."
2.Claude Bernard: "Art is I, Science is we."
3.Theordore Roszak: "Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for microscope and telescope."
4.Elbert Hubbard: "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
5.Enrico Fermi: "It is no good to try to stop knowledge going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
6.Charles Sanders Pierce: "There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be."
7.Winston Churchill: "Science should be on tap, not on top."
8.Albert Einstein: "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
9.Henri Poincaré: "Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
10.Clive James: "It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."
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