A promise is a debt.
A man wrapped
up in himself makes a very small package.
No talent, no
character, and no brains are required in the grumbling
business.
Someday I will learn to stop procrastinating, but today
is not that day.
Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.
It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
Experience is
the father of wisdom.
The crown of
a good disposition is humility.
Asking
costs little.
The wise man has long ears, big eyes and a short tongue.
Conscience
gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.
Do not choose for anyone what you do not choose for yourself.
What can the
enemy do when the friend is cordial?
Joy and
sorrow are next door neighbors.
Fool me once,
shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
The
pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious
stone.
Good example
is half a sermon.
A man with a
sour face should not open a shop.
What is
bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
For every evil under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, try and find it; if there be none,
never mind it.
A narrow mind
has a broad tongue.
An idle brain
is the devil's workshop.
We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen the more and talk the less.
If you
wish another to keep your secret, first keep it
yourself.
A man of
words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
Anger is as a
stone cast into a wasp's nest.
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
To live in
hearts we leave behind is not to die.
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Some little known facts
The Vatican City is the country that drinks the most
wine per capita at 74 liters per citizen per year.
Approximately 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets
each year.
If a female ferret does not have sex for a year, she
will die.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
“Almost” is the longest word in English with all the
letters in alphabetical order.
A family of
people with blue skin
lived in Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates of
Troublesome Creek are thought to have gained their blue
skin through combination of inbreeding and a rare
genetic condition known as methemoglobinemia.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
No piece of square paper can be folded more than 7 times
in half.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and nobody can figure out
why.
Casu marzu
is a Sardinian cheese that
contains live maggots.
The maggots can jump up to five inches out of cheese
while you're eating it, so it's a good idea to shield it
with your hand to stop them jumping into your eyes.
At any one time about 0.7% of the world’s population is
drunk.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
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Weird & Wonderful Facts
The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue,
green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is
because at least one of those colors appears on the flag
of every nation on the planet.
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in
progress over the earth's atmosphere.
Dueling is legal is Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.
In 18th century England, gambling dens employed someone
whose job was to swallow the dice if there was a police
raid.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has
never rained.
In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no
gravity and tears can't flow.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to operate a
television for three hours.
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or
snakes.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches
for each gallon of fuel it burns.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before
the egg.