Trivia

I cannot guarantee the accuracy of all the points.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Chicks, like humans, count from left to right.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

Dogs and Humans are the only animals with prostates.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Due to earth's gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Hippos and Rhinos have only two knees and can jump. Elephants have four knees).

Emus cannot walk backwards.

Every three days, a human stomach gets a new lining.

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.

For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter Ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia, Australia and South America.

Giant tortoises from the Galapagos can survive without food or water for up to a year.

Give me the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef, i.e. give me your feedback.

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it is buried in the ground for thousands of years.

Graphene, the world's strongest material, is a million times thinner than paper, but 200 times stronger than steel.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

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Humorous Quotes

It’s useless to hold a person to anything they say when they are in love, drunk, or running for office. - Shirley MacLaine

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. - Laurel K. Hamilton

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts. - Lt. Frank Drebin

I tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings. - Kevin Nealon

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. - George Eliot

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. - William Congreve

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don’t have to respect anybody. - George Burns

The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. - Harlan Elison

My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours. That was only for the estimate. - Unknown

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - Saki

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. - Mae West

Trouble with modern children, they do not smart in right place. - Charlie Chan

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Happiness

If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, and those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. - Seneca

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. - Earl Nightingale

Pain and illness, the deaths of that one love, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance. - Jean Liedloff

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. - Ralph Marston

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Quote Worthy

Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. - Sara Blakely

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. - Criss Jami

Starting over is not a sign of failure, but a mark of courage, of the willingness to give yourself, and your life, another chance. - Unknown

Close some doors today, not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere. - Paulo Coelho

Try is a small word that makes a lot of difference. If we try, we only risk failure. But if we don’t even try we ensure it. - Unknown

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas Huxley

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. - Rumi

Maybe that is why young people make success. They don’t know enough. - Richard P. Feynman

Sometimes, there is nothing you can do but let it rain and wait for the sunshine. - Unknown

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

Set your goals, take the action, live your dreams. - Catherine Pulsifer

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Humorous Quotes

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! - Mark Twain

I've finally reached the age where my Wild Oats have turned into All-Bran! - Tom Wilson

It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel. - August Strindberg

I’m gonna go take a hot shower. It’s like a normal shower, but with me in it. - Unknown

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows they’d learned to swim. - U2

I’m not mean, I just give people a good reason to hate me. - Haresh Daswani

I’m so ugly my father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet. - Rodney Dangerfield

I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book. - Gloria Swanson

I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police. - Keith Richards

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers. - S. M. Stirling

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. - Groucho Marx

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right. - Mark Twain

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Love

We cannot hold anything back from love: there must be a willingness to offer all of ourselves into the fire – even if it breaks our hearts; even if we are devastated by the power and immensity of its beauty, there must be the willingness to allow love to ravage us. - Brandon Bays

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you’re gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold. - Alice Hoffman

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl S. Buck

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. - James E. Faust

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. - Ann Landers

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love. - Robert Fulghum

You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love. - Richelle Mead

Don’t fall in love so easily; it’s best to take your time. Love is built on trust, and trust is built on acceptance. Acceptance is built on friendship and a strong friendship takes time to build. - Unknown

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Quote Worthy

To wish that others should learn by our experience, is sometimes as idle as to think that we can eat and they be filled; but when we find that we have eaten poison, it is doubtless mercy to warn others against the dish. - Eliza Cook

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. - J. Sidlow Baxter

However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. - Lewis Mumford

Now that we have learned to fly in the air like birds and dive in the sea like fish, only one thing remains – to learn to live on earth like humans. - George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes, you have to let go just to hold on to your sanity. There are people that have mastered making you believe you’re the crazy one. - Unknown

Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. - Unknown

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. - John Green

There is simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion. - Daniel Dennett

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. - Bruce Lee

If you have much, give your wealth. If you have little, give your heart. - Arab Proverb

There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go. - Jessica Hatchigan

Those who command themselves, command others. - William Hazlitt

The more you reason the less you create. - Raymond Chandler

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Change

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. - Alan Cohen

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed. - John Dewey

The people who keep back change are often exasperating. But they have their work to perform, highly important work, too. Their very opposition, besides helping to weed out the weak ideas, gives the true ideas greater strength. For an idea is not worth much unless it can sturdily make its way through opposition and display toughness of fibre. - John Daniel Barry

The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable. - Robert Anthony

Humorous Quotes

They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. - Suzanne Finnamore

In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower? - Warren Hutcherson

Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. - George Carlin

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. - George Washington

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. - Oscar Wilde

The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. - Jim Shepard

One problem with being an expert on everything is that you cannot turn to anyone else for advice. - Gary W. Smith

You don’t need to know all the answers. No one is smart enough to ask you all the questions. - Unknown

An alcoholic is anyone you don't like who drinks more than you do. - Dylan Thomas

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck

If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal. - Evan Esar

I’m so broke, I can’t even pay attention. - Unknown Click Here for more humorous quotes, or Here for the book ‘Of Wit ‘n’ Humour’

Friends and Friendship

True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart. - Anuj Somany

Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. - William Butler Yeats

When an intimate friend turns from us, we often find him the most inveterate enemy. - William Scott Downey

As the circle of friends is enlarged, the bonds of friendship are relaxed and weakened. - John Thornton

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. - Jaron Lanier

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both. - Aesop

We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity. - Aesop

A hungry cat will not acknowledge the friendship of a rat. - Edward Counse

A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start. - Mellin de Saint-Gelais

A friend is never known till a man have need. - John Heywood

Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends. - Ivan Panin

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A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least some of their ability may rub off on him. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Everything that is done in the present affects the future in the form of consequence and affects the past in the form of redemption. - Paulo Coelho

When we are present in each moment, the past gently rolls up behind us and the future slowly unravels before us. - Rev Richard Levy

To his whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. - Henry David Thoreau

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. - Norman Vincent Peale

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. - Ambrose Bierce

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead. - Garrison Keillor

If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. - Unknown

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche

We must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures. - William Shakespeare

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein

Sometimes, it is better to let the silence do the talking. - Unknown

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Food for Thought

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something - and it is only such love that can know freedom. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Around us, life bursts forth with miracles – a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life’s daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities – the political, the religious, the educational authorities – who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing – forming in our minds – their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself. - Timothy Leary

I believe in cultivating opposite, but complementary views of life, and I believe in meeting life’s challenges with contradictory strategies. I believe in reckoning with the ultimate meaninglessness of our existence, even as we fall in love with the miracle of being alive. I believe in working passionately to make our lives count while never losing sight of our insignificance. I believe in caring deeply and being beyond caring. It is by encompassing these opposites, by being involved and vulnerable, but simultaneously transcendent and detached, that our lives are graced by resilience and joy. - Fritz Williams

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Humorous Quotes

Good humour is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. - Grenville Kleiser

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it. - Scott Adams

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. - Ellen Degeneres

I have a strict policy. I will not and do not publicize unsubstantiated rumours about anyone – unless they're very funny. - Jimmy Kimmel

My husband and I married for better or worse!! He couldn’t have done better and I couldn’t have done worse! - Rhonda

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate. - Charles M. Schulz

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. - Bill Maher

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can’t hurt us again until tomorrow. - Jay Leno

Gravitation can’t be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet. - Margaret Mead

To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job. - Simone de Beauvoir

If the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

I’m not anti-social. I’m just not social. - Woody Allen

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Success

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. Success shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching. - Tennessee Williams

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. - William Peterson

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. - Colin Powell

Success too often sanctions the worst and the wildest schemes of human ambition. - Charles Caleb Colton

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward. - Robert Bontine Cunninghame

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. - John Maxwell

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. - Jim Rohn

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. - Criss Jami

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down. - Lin YuTang

The most successful people are not necessarily the most popular. - Unknown

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Quote Worthy

Sometimes you need to take a step backward before you move forward again. Let your body rest, and your mind heal. Let the wounds mend, and time pass. Only you know when you are ready to begin again. - Unknown

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you. - Heidi Johnson

You’re not going to master the rest of your life in one day. Just relax. Master the day. Then just keep doing that every day. - Unknown

There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it. - René Descartes

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding. - Vincent van Gogh

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. - Stephanie Perkins

We must not forget, on this planet we were seeded, along with everything we ever needed. - Marie Cortes

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sometimes, you only available transportation is a leap of faith. - Unknown

Never announce your moves before you make them. - Unknown

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Death

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. - Marcus Aurelius

Death strips all men of dignity. - Tobsha Learner

Death submits to no one. - Homer

Death takes no bribes. - Benjamin Franklin

Death was far more certain than God. - Graham Greene

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. - Bertolt Brecht

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfilment. - Dag Hammarskjold

Dying is like coming to the end of a long novel – you only regret it if the ride was enjoyable and left you wanting more. - Jerome P. Crabb

Dying men think of funny thingsp – and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men? - Tad Williams

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. - Gloria Steinem

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world. - Jean Paul Richter

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life. - Leonrdo da Vinci

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come! - William Shakespeare

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour. - Ivan Klima

He that begins to live, begins to die. - Francis Quarles

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it. - Stanislas I

How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep! - Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die – something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet. - Charles de Lint

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. - Montaigne

In the end, living is defined by dying. Bookended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. - Bernard Beckett

Is death the last sleep? No – it is the last and final awakening. - Sir Walter Scott

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a happy tune. - Woody Allen