M A T H / W O R D F A C T S

>> Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
>> Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number
>> The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
>> Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
>> If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.
>> The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
>> "Zorro" means "fox" in Spanish.
>> Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
>> The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off" in Chinese.
>> "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
>> There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
>> "Floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long.
>> Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.
>> If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
>> In Chinese, the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same.
>> "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
>> "So long" came from the Arabic "salaam" and the Hebrew "shalom."
>> The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
>> The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
>> The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.
>> "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
>> There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver, orange, or month.
>> The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
>> There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
>> "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed.
>> The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
>> The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
>> In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
>> "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
>> The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
>> "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard.
>> The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means, "the king is dead."
>> The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English language.
>> The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
>> Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
>> "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
>> The most common name in the world is "Mohammed."

RECORDS

>> The first person to ever survive the fall over Niagara Falls was in 1901 when Annie Edson Taylor, a 43 year-old widowed school teacher from Bay City, Michigan, survived the fall in a 260 pound oak barrel.
>> The deepest point in the deepest ocean is the Marianas Trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,837 feet (10,923 m) according to a recent hydrographic survey. This is close to 7 miles (11 km) down, 29 times the height of the Empire State Building.
>> According to the Guiness Book, the fastest restaurant in the world serves the client's food within 13 seconds after the order is made. The name of the restaurant is Karne Garibaldi and is located in Guadalajara, Mexico.
>> World's tallest freestanding indoor climbing structure is the Game Works climbing wall standing at 75 feet (23 m).
>> The fastest Pony Express ride was 7 days, 17 hours and was carrying Lincoln's inaugural address.
>> The fastest tectonic movement on Earth, 9.4 inches (24 cm) per year, is at the Tonga microplate near Samoa.
>> Pioneer 11's speed going past Jupiter was over 107,000 miles (172,163 km) per hour, the fastest speed ever traveled by a human-made object.
>> The fastest moving landmass on the planet, the Tongan Island of Niuatoputapu in the South Pacific, has recently been clocked at almost 10 inches (25.4 cm) per year.
>> The Bureau of Standards says that the electron is the fastest thing in the world.
>> The Steel Phantom in West Millen, Pennsylvania, is the fastest roller coaster in America, reaching speeds of 80 miles (129 km) per hour.
>> The fastest typist can type at 211 words per minute.
>> The world's fastest ship weighs 112 tons and travels at 102 miles (164 km) per hour.
>> President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
>> Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing installed in his house, in 1840.
>> The first female monster to appear on the big screen was Bride of Frankenstein.
>> The first ever TV commercial in the U.S. was for Bulova watches. It aired in 1941 on WNBT, New York, and cost Bulova 9 dollars.
>> Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
>> The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.
>> Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be televised, on April 1939 at opening of the New York World's Fair.
>> The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.
>> New Zealand was the first place in the world to allow women to vote.
>> The first television shows to have the characters take bathroom breaks were "All in the family" and "Married with children."
>> The first music video was aired on August 1, 1981 "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles on MTV.
>> Most people have an IQ in the 90 - 109 range. You're considered a genius if your IQ is 132 or above. Chris Langan has an IQ of 195, the highest known IQ in the US. He started talking at 6 months and by age 4 could read and comprehend books. His IQ puts him in the same class as Sir Isaac Newton and Michelangelo. He's in his mid-forties, and he works as a part-time bouncer at a bar and lives in a one-room house on $6,000 a year.
>> William James Sidis had the highest ever known IQ estimated at between 250 and 300. At eighteen months he could read The New York Times, at two he taught himself Latin, at three he learned Greek. By the time he was an adult, he could speak more than 40 languages and dialects. He spent most of his life wandering from one menial job to another.
>> La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia, is the highest capital in the world at over 17,000 feet (5,181 m).
>> Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 3,212 feet (979 m).
>> The highest tide in the world is in the Bay of Fundy, Canada, where there is a rise of 53 feet (16 m).
>> The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.
>> The largest flower in the world, the Rufflesia, grows to over 10 feet (3 m) in diameter.
>> The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.
>> The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived, reaching 100 feet (30.4 m) in length and weighing 150 tons. The largest dinosaur, Argentinosaurus, was estimated to weigh 110 tons.
>> The largest living thing on earth is a tree named "The General Sherman Tree" in Sequoia National Park. It is 275 feet (84 m) tall and 37 feet (11 m) wide at the widest part of the base.
>> The largest ketchup bottle is a 170 feet (52 m) tall water tower.
>> The world's largest collection of preserved human brains is maintained in a WWII era bomb shelter beneath the Runwell Psychiatric Hospital in Essex, England. 8,000 brains collected over the past 40 years are available for researchers to study.
>> Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km).
>> The largest known butterfly is Queen Alexandra's Birdwing from New Guinea, which has a wingspan of approximately 11 inches (28 cm).
>> The smallest butterfly, the Dwarf Blue from Africa, has a wingspan of only one-half inch.
>> Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest planet in the solar system, twice as big as all the other planets combined.
>> The largest mountain in the Solar System is Olympus Mons on Mars. At 372 miles (600 km) across and a height of over 16 miles (26 km), it is nearly 3 times taller than Mt. Everest.
>> The largest canyon system in the Solar System is Valles Marineris on Mars. It is more than 3,000 miles (4,827 km) long, reaches 3 miles (5 km) in depth, 200 miles (322 km) in width, and would stretch from California to New York.
>> The Boeing Commercial Airplane factory in Everett, Washington is the largest building in the world. The entire Disneyland amusement park, including its parking lots, could fit inside of it.
>> The largest painting on earth is a 116,000-square-foot (35,356 m) whale mural, 11 stories tall, and 1,028 feet (313 m) in circumference encircling the outside of the Long Beach Convention Center painted by Robert Wyland.
>> The largest turtle ever found weighed 2,016 pounds.
>> The largest insects that ever lived on the earth were giant dragonflies with wingspans of over 3 feet (1 m).
>> The largest object that was ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle.
>> The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
>> The longest official city name in the world, made up of 164 letters, is "Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit" a.k.a. Bangkok, Thailand.
>> The longest film ever released was "****" by Andy Warhol in 1967, which lasted 25 hours. After its utter failure, it was withdrawn and re-released in a 90-minute form as "The Loves of Ondine."
>> The song with the longest title is "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues" written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1943.
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>> "The Simpsons" is the longest running animated series on TV.
>> The longest word in the English language is 1,913 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

>> The longest fence in the world is in Australia and it runs for over 3,436 miles (5,530 km).
>> The woman who has the longest legs, Nadja Auerman, has legs that are 3 feet 8.8 inches (1.14m) long.
>> The world's longest hair, grown by Mr. Hook, is 17 feet 2.3 inches (5.24 m) long. Now in his late 80's, Mr. Hook has not had a hair cut since his late teens because he became ill after a trim and a dream warned him against further snips. He washes it once a year.
>> The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
>> Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
>> "Stewardesses" and "reverberated" are the two longest words - 12 letters each - that can be typed using only the left hand.
>> The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is "lollipop" - 8 letters.
>> "Skepticism" - 10 letters - is the longest typed word that alternates hands.
>> The longest word in the English language that has only one vowel is "strengths" - nine letters.
>> "Racecar" is the longest single-word palindrome in the English language.
>> The world's longest name officially used by a person is "Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior" which is composed of 28 words or 192 letters.
>> The longest banana split was 288,288 inches (732,251 cm) long.
>> World's longest moustache is 133 1/2 inches (339 cm) grown by Kalyan Ramji Sain.
>> The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.
>> The longest animal ever recorded is the ribbon worm also known as Lineus longissimus. This creature measured at 180 feet (55 m) when it washed ashore in Scotland in the late 1800's.
>> "ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for "Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command."

More movies are produced in India than in Hollywood

Each year, more movies are produced in India than in Hollywood. About 800 movies are released annually in India, about twice the output of Hollywood.
The first movie screened publicly was "La Sortie des Ouvriers de l'Usine Lumière" which was presented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere in Paris in 1895. The first movie to use sound was "The Jazz Singer," released in 1927: the first words, spoken by Al Jolson, were: "Wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet."
According to the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), in 1996 the average Hollywood film cost $35.3 million to make and another $17.7 million to market. Disney's "The Lion King" cost $45 million to make and employed a total of 800 animators.
The most expensive film ever made, was James Cameron's "Titanic." It cost $200 million, but also was the most successful, in the sense that it won 11 Academy Awards, equalling "Ben Hur" of 1959.
The top five moneymaking films of all time are: "Titanic" [$1,835m], Jurassic Park" [$920m], Independence Day" [$810m], "Star Wars" [$780m], "The Lion King" [$767m]. Notice that they all are family-type movies. In fact, movies with strong sexual or violence content usually bomb at the box office. According to the American Family Association, the average cost to produce a movie in 1996 was $40 million. Sex films grossed on average only $700 000. Movies with strong Christian or family content each grossed over $37 million.
"Frankly my dear...""Gone With The Wind has been the best-attended film since its release in 1939. Without a doubt the most famous line in the movie is when Rhett Butler tells Scarlet O'Hara, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." According to "Curse Control", a book by James O'Connor, director David Selznick was fined heavy for that curse word: $5,000. A lot of money in those days. The movie is based on the book by Margaret Mitchell. It was the only book she wrote.

There are more than 20,000 brands of beer

Worldwide, 20,000 brands of beer are brewed brewed in 180 styles, from ales, lagers, pilsner and stouts to bitters, cream ales and iced beers.
Beer has been a popular beverage for a long time. Babylonian clay tablets show detailed recipes of beer making in 4300 BC. Beer was also brewed by the ancient Chinese, Assyrians and Incas.
An Egyptian text of 1600 BC gives 100 medical prescriptions using beer. A few years ago, the New Castle Brewery in England brewed 1,000 bottles Tutankhamun Ale from a 3,200-year old recipe found in the sun temple of Queen Nefertiti.
Commercial beer making was established in 1200 AD in present-day Germany. In 1506, the German Purity Law is issued, specifying that beer ingredients must only be water, barley, wheat and hops. Bottling of beer started in 1605.
Making beer:Brewing is the process of changing water and grain into beer through a yeast catalyst. The quality of the water is extremely important. Hard water produce a bitter ale, soft water produce bitter lager. Barley or hops, or a combination of them, is used for the grain.
Getting dry grain ready for fermentation is called malting. The grain is steeped in water until it sprouts. The sprouting or germination is not allowed to end naturally but is interrupted either by drying or roasting in kilns.
Barley:Barley has been a grain of choice for thousands of years. The longer the roasting of the malted barley, the darker the beer. Barley, or wheat beers have a sweet taste.
Hops:Hops are herbaceous climbing vines and look like a cross between pine cores and artichokes. The bitter, dry flavour of hops counterbalance the sweetness of malt.
Yeast:Sugars in the malted grains are converted into alcohol by yeast. Different yeast ferment sugars into different flavours. For ales, top fermentation yeast is used, while bottom fermentation yeast is used for lagers.
The beer making process starts by germinating the grain, then steeping the resulting malt in hot water to get the wort. Base wort contents means the percentage of wort in the beer before fermentation. The alcohol contents is roughly one third of the base wort contents.The wort is boiled (brewed) and hops are added. After brewing, fermentation starts by adding yeast. After fermentation, the wort is drown into tanks where it is allowed to condition or age. Yeast and hops are sometimes added in a secondary fermentation process.
Ales and Lagers:Ales, stouts and several other types of brews, like porter, are top-fermented. The top-fermentation yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, usually produces stronger alcohol contents than the bottom-fermentation yeast, Saccharomyces carlsbergi, but the latter produces more quality-consistent brew. Lagers are bottom-fermented.
Ales usually are heavily hopped, and include bitters, brown ales, cream ales, mild ale, pale ale, India pale ale, barley wine and several other types. There are two types of the aboriginal ale still brewed in Europe. They are Belgian "lambic" and Finnish "sahti", which is brewed from rye malt. They are brewed on wild yeast and spontaneous fermentation. Both have very distinct tastes.
The word "lager" is German and means "storage", which refers to the lager (storage) fermentation. The main fermentation of both ales and lager are done on the similar temperature for 7-14 days. After that time the ale, depending on the type, may be ready for bottling. With lagers, this is only the start. After the main fermentation the beer is pumped into lager (storage) tanks with temperature some 10 deg C lower than room temperature. It is then let to mature and ferment for several weeks, usually 6-10 weeks. At 270 days, the longest lager fermentation is for that of Budejovicky Budvar brewery's Bud Strong.
Best taste:The best taste usually is acquired at an alcohol contents of 4.7% ethanol per volume. Less than that results in a beer with a bland taste. More than that and the higher alcohols (butanol, pentanol etc) become overpowering and spoils the taste.
The strongest beer type by alcohol content is doppelbock, which is usually 8%-10% ethanol by its volume content. The strongest beer brand in production is German "Eisbock", with some 14% ethanol by volume.

Worldwide, 20,000 brands of beer are brewed brewed in 180 styles, from ales, lagers, pilsner and stouts to bitters, cream ales and iced beers.
Beer has been a popular beverage for a long time. Babylonian clay tablets show detailed recipes of beer making in 4300 BC. Beer was also brewed by the ancient Chinese, Assyrians and Incas.
An Egyptian text of 1600 BC gives 100 medical prescriptions using beer. A few years ago, the New Castle Brewery in England brewed 1,000 bottles Tutankhamun Ale from a 3,200-year old recipe found in the sun temple of Queen Nefertiti.
Commercial beer making was established in 1200 AD in present-day Germany. In 1506, the German Purity Law is issued, specifying that beer ingredients must only be water, barley, wheat and hops. Bottling of beer started in 1605.
Making beer:Brewing is the process of changing water and grain into beer through a yeast catalyst. The quality of the water is extremely important. Hard water produce a bitter ale, soft water produce bitter lager. Barley or hops, or a combination of them, is used for the grain.
Getting dry grain ready for fermentation is called malting. The grain is steeped in water until it sprouts. The sprouting or germination is not allowed to end naturally but is interrupted either by drying or roasting in kilns.
Barley:Barley has been a grain of choice for thousands of years. The longer the roasting of the malted barley, the darker the beer. Barley, or wheat beers have a sweet taste.
Hops:Hops are herbaceous climbing vines and look like a cross between pine cores and artichokes. The bitter, dry flavour of hops counterbalance the sweetness of malt.
Yeast:Sugars in the malted grains are converted into alcohol by yeast. Different yeast ferment sugars into different flavours. For ales, top fermentation yeast is used, while bottom fermentation yeast is used for lagers.
The beer making process starts by germinating the grain, then steeping the resulting malt in hot water to get the wort. Base wort contents means the percentage of wort in the beer before fermentation. The alcohol contents is roughly one third of the base wort contents.The wort is boiled (brewed) and hops are added. After brewing, fermentation starts by adding yeast. After fermentation, the wort is drown into tanks where it is allowed to condition or age. Yeast and hops are sometimes added in a secondary fermentation process.
Ales and Lagers:Ales, stouts and several other types of brews, like porter, are top-fermented. The top-fermentation yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, usually produces stronger alcohol contents than the bottom-fermentation yeast, Saccharomyces carlsbergi, but the latter produces more quality-consistent brew. Lagers are bottom-fermented.
Ales usually are heavily hopped, and include bitters, brown ales, cream ales, mild ale, pale ale, India pale ale, barley wine and several other types. There are two types of the aboriginal ale still brewed in Europe. They are Belgian "lambic" and Finnish "sahti", which is brewed from rye malt. They are brewed on wild yeast and spontaneous fermentation. Both have very distinct tastes.
The word "lager" is German and means "storage", which refers to the lager (storage) fermentation. The main fermentation of both ales and lager are done on the similar temperature for 7-14 days. After that time the ale, depending on the type, may be ready for bottling. With lagers, this is only the start. After the main fermentation the beer is pumped into lager (storage) tanks with temperature some 10 deg C lower than room temperature. It is then let to mature and ferment for several weeks, usually 6-10 weeks. At 270 days, the longest lager fermentation is for that of Budejovicky Budvar brewery's Bud Strong.
Best taste:The best taste usually is acquired at an alcohol contents of 4.7% ethanol per volume. Less than that results in a beer with a bland taste. More than that and the higher alcohols (butanol, pentanol etc) become overpowering and spoils the taste.
The strongest beer type by alcohol content is doppelbock, which is usually 8%-10% ethanol by its volume content. The strongest beer brand in production is German "Eisbock", with some 14% ethanol by volume.

Witty Quotes

Quotes of the Day for April 3, 2005
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Lee Simonson
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
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Islam is a religion in which Allah demands you send your son to die for him; Christianity is the faith in which God sent his son to die for you.- John Ashcroft
The beginning is the most important part of the work.- Plato
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.- Geri Weitzman
Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.- Winston Churchill
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.- George Bernard Shaw
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.- Phyllis Diller
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.- Slovenian proverb
Imagination is more important than knowledge.- Albert Einstein
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.- Elias Schwartz
Everything you can imagine is real.- Picasso
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.- W. Edwards Deming
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.- Winston Churchill
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.- Abraham Lincoln
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.- Malcolm S. Forbes
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.- Anonymous
What does not kill me makes me stronger.- Goethe
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.- Ann Landers
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.- Georges Guynemer
If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice!- Neil Peart
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?- Kelvin Throop
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.- Anonymous
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.- Oscar Wilde
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.- Woody Allen
If you can't convince them, confuse them.- Harry S Truman
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.- Anonymous
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.- Anonymous
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.- Appius Claudius
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.- Thomas A. Edison
To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future.- Chinese proverb
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.- Shakespeare
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.- Henry Kissinger
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.- Russian proverb
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.- George Burns
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.- Samuel Butler
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.- Bob Wells
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.- Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.- Bob Edwards
If you think education is expensive, try Ignorance.- Andy McIntyre
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.- Will Rogers
It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.- Albert Einstein
The more you know, the less you need to show.- Anonymous
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.- Bob Wells
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.- Anonymous
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.- Henry Ford
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.- Anonymous
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.- Anonymous
Democracy is the worst system devised by with of man, except for all the others.- Winston Churchill
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.- Anonymous
If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.- Anonymous
Use soft words and hard arguments.- Anonymous
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits- Anonymous
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.- Harold R. McAlindon
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.- Will Durant
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.- William Saroyan
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.- Friedrich von Schiller
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.- John Locke
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.- Paul Erlich
Wine is bottled poetry.- Robert Louis Stevenson
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.- Chinese proverb
"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.- Anonymous
I think; therefore I am.- Rene Descartes
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.- Greek proverb
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.- Voltaire
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.- Casey Stengal
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.- W. C. Fields
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk!Churchill: And Madam, you are ugly. And tomorrow, I'll be sober, and you will still be ugly.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.- H. L. Mencken
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.- Henny Youngman
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.- Leo Buscaglia
God does not play dice with the universe.- Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.- Albert Einstein
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.- James Klass
Not all those who wonder are lost.- Anonymous
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.- Lao-Tsu
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.- Gilbert Highet
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.- Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.- E. F. Schumacher
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.-Tom Lehrer
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!-Calvin
No pressure, no diamonds.- Mary Case
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.- Rita Mae Brown
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.- Rita Mae Brown
Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.- Anonymous
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.- Anonymous
If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.- Anonymous
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.- Anonymous
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.- Anonymous
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.- Dorothy Parker
Nothing endures but change.- Heraclitus
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.- Socrates
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.- Holt's Law
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.- Chinese proverb
A picture is worth a thousand wordsis not an old proverb- 1921 ad copy by Fred R Barnard
Wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.- Lucius Accius
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.- Samuel Johnson
Necessity is the mother of invention.- Plato
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.- Adlai Stevenson
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.- Ovid
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.- Tom Stoppard