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December 21, 2010

December 20, 2010

Best Friendship Quotes

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” - Albert Camus

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.” - Aristotle

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.” - Elbert Hubbard

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” - Dale Carnegie

“True friends stab you in the front.” - Oscar Wilde

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” - Helen Keller

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value. Rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” - C. S. Lewis

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” - William Butler Yeats

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” - George Eliot

Uselessly Amazing.

funny but relatively useless information

  1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
  2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
  3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
  4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
  5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
  6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. (except in Salford, Manchester. The University of Salford conducted an experiment proving this much quoted internet fact to be a fallacy. So there you go, never believe anything you read on t'internet http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_info/duck/
  7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
  8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
  9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
  10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
  12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
  13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver.
  14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.
  15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
  16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
  17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
  18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
  19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
  20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
  22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
  23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
  24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
  25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
  26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
  27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
  28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
  29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
  30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback to passing gas in such a confined space....
  32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
  33. The Guinness World Record for holding the most Guinness World Records is set by Ashrita Furman , who has broken 303 official Guinness World records