Advice for Living

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."