Popular Quotations

Popular Quotations

Quotations about Education:

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. –– Marcel Achard Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... –– Anonymous Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. –– Francis Bacon Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. –– Jacques Barzun Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. –– Hector Louis Berlioz It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. –– Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. –– J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. –– Edward Bulwer-Lytton Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. –– Albert Camus A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. –– Thomas Carruthers Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. –– Chinese Proverb A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. –– John Ciardi The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. –– Cicero The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. –– Robertson Davies Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. –– Benjamin Disraeli The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. –– Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. –– Norman Douglas How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. –– Alexandre Dumas fils If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. –– Tryon Edwards It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. –– Albert Einstein Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. –– Ralph Waldo Emerson The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. –– Anatole France You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. –– Robert Frost Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. –– Gail Godwin The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. –– Russell Green I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. –– Shecky Greene Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role. –– William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. –– Aldous Huxley Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. –– Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. –– Pope John Paul I To teach is to learn twice. –– Joseph Joubert An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. –– Carl Gustav Jung University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. –– Henry Kissinger Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. –– Bob Perelman A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care. –– Richard Pratt, Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. –– John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. –– Bertrand Russell It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. –– Leslie Jeanne Sahler A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. –– George Bernard Shaw Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. –– B.F. Skinner The philosophy exam was a piece of cake –– which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. –– Smith & Jones I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. –– Socrates Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. –– G. M. Trevelyan I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. –– Mark Twain The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. –– William Arthur Ward If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. –– John Watson, University of Canterbury The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. –– Virginia Woolf

Quotations about Communication:

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are. –– Alford I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. –– Anonymous The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. –– Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say –– unless you insist on saying it. –– Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. –– Josh Billings The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. –– Edward Bulwer-Lytton I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. –– Calvin Coolidge Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. –– Gandhi Silence is argument carried out by other means. –– Ernesto "Che" Guevara When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. –– Ernest Hemingway The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. –– Kin Hubbard Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. –– Aldous Huxley Value your words. Each one may be the last. –– Stanislaw J. Lec I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. –– Tom Lehrer Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. –– Abraham Lincoln Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. –– Abraham Lincoln Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. –– Anne Morrow Lindbergh No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. –– Mignon McLaughlin He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. –– John Stuart Mill We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. –– John Stuart Mill Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. –– Mother Teresa It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. –– Tom Robbins The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. –– George Bernard Shaw He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. –– Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. –– James McNeill Whistler Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. –– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Quotations about Experience

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. –– Albert Camus The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. –– Albert Einstein Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. –– Elbert Hubbard Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. –– Aldous Huxley Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. –– Aldous Huxley Experience teaches only the teachable. –– Aldous Huxley Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. –– Vernon Law Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. –– Vince Lombardi We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. –– George Bernard Shaw Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. –– Sioux Indian Prayer Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. –– Don Stanford To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. –– Robert L. Stevenson Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. –– Oscar Wilde Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes. –– Oscar Wilde Good judgement comes from experience, and experience––well, that comes from poor judgement. –– Cousin Woodman

Quotations about Success-Failure:

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. –– Maya Angelou There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. –– Neils Bohr The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. –– Niels Bohr Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. –– William Jennings Bryant To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. –– Francis Crawford Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. –– Josephus Daniels ... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. –– Thomas Edison Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. –– Albert Einstein Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. –– Henry Ford The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. –– Robert G. Ingersoll Mistakes are the portals of discovery. –– James Joyce Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. –– Abraham Lincoln The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. –– Abraham Lincoln Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. –– Orison Swett Marden No other success can compensate for failure in the home. –– David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? –– Robert Schuller What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? –– Robert Schuller You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –– Beverly Sills Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing. –– Sydney Smith Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. –– Arnold Toynbee If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. –– Abigail Van Buren It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. –– Gore Vidal Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. –– George E. Woodberry

Quotations about Friendship:

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. –– Arnold Bennett Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. –– Samuel Butler A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. –– Fr. Jerome Cummings It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. –– Benjamin Disraeli I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. –– Euripides My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! –– Henry Ford There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. –– Benjamin Franklin When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. –– E. W. Howe Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. –– Thomas Jones The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences. –– Eugene Kennedy The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. –– Abraham Lincoln The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. –– Aaron Machado When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. –– Henry Miller A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. –– Friedrich Nietzsche Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. –– Anaïs Nin We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. –– Caroline Norton When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. –– Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. –– Samuel Paterson Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words. –– Rainer Maria Rilke Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. –– George Santayana Good friends are good for your health. –– Irwin Sarason Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. –– Sydney Smith A friend is a gift you give yourself. –– Robert Louis Stevenson A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. –– Walter Winchell Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. –– Virginia Woolf

Quotations about Health:

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. –– Carol Burnett 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 The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. –– Jean Kerr I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. –– Carol Leifer A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. –– George H. Mead I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. –– Richard Nixon, U.S. President I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. –– Mark Twain You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax––tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. –– Pearl Williams

Quotations about Computers-Technology

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. –– Scott Adams There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. –– Guy Almes There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. –– Jeremy S. Anderson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. –– John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet. –– Anonymous If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. –– Anonymous Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! –– Rory Bremner The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. –– Andrew Brown Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. –– Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above. –– Ken Iverson Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. –– Guy Kawasaki I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. –– D. H. Lawrence Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it. –– Mark Leeper Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? –– Michael Meissner In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. –– Dennis Miller, "Saturday Night Live," U.S. television show The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. –– Jerry Olson There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. –– Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. –– Jeff Raskin The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. –– B. F. Skinner If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. –– Joseph Snipp Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea –– massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. –– Gene Spafford If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. –– Rob Stampfli Men have become the tools of their tools. –– Henry David Thoreau Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. –– John Tudor Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. –– Unknown author

Mind Blowing Facts

Mind Blowing Facts

1. Turtles have no teeth.
2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.
3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they're crying.
5. Helium is a colourless, odourless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.
6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
8. Camels can spit.
9. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
10. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
11. Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.

12. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).

13. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc

14. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.

15. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.

16. Paris, France has more dogs than people.

17. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.

18. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.

19. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.

20. There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.

21. A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.

22. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years

23. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey

24. The name `India' is derived from the River Indus

25. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.

26. Chess was invented in India.

27. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

28. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices.

29. India has the most post offices in the world

30. 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH

31. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

32. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world

33. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

34. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

35. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

36. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

37. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

38. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along

39. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.

40. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).

41. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'

42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

43. Ants don't sleep.

44. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.

45. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time

46. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time

47. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".

48. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.

49. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.

50. Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

51. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.

52. Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.

53. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

54. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

55. Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons

56. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

57. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere

58. Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy

59. The average woman uses about her height in lipstick every five years.

60. The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25,

61. AD 336 in Rome.

62. A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

63. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't

64. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can

65. About 10% of the world's population is left-handed

66. Dolphins sleep with one eye open

67. Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.

68. Many spiders have eight eyes.

69. The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.

70. Birds don't sweat

71. The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft

72. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts

73. The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz

74. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

75. The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert

76. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

77. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.

If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.

If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

78. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue

79. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them

80. An elephant can smell water three miles away

81. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds

82. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man

83. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history

84. The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).

85. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

86. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

87. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.

88. The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

89. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint

90. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.

91. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica

92. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert

93. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter

94. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300 degrees.

95. Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.

96. Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.

97. Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.

98. Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.

99. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.

100. Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have a least one radio. Most families have several radios.

101. Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.

102. At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio's amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer's voice travels

103. Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you want your antenna to "catch."

104. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. It's scientific name is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time, mountain lions were very common!

105. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar.

106. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!

107. Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time! That's equivalent to 40 quarter-pounder hamburgers!

108. Queen ants can live to be 30 years old

109. Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour

110. As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 435 times per second

111. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

112. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

113. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day

114. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

115. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

116. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

117. Women blink nearly twice as much as men

118. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible

119. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it.

120. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

121. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

122. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

123. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

124. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

125. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

Nice Story, but DO NOT miss the moral !!!

Nice Story, but DO NOT miss the moral !!!

Impossible is nothing. Even impossible spells "i m possible"

Nice Story, but DO NOT miss the moral !!

A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in seven digits.

The store owner listened to the following conversation.

The boy asked, "Lady, Can you give me the of cutting your lawn?"

The woman replied, "I already to cut my lawn."

"Lady, I will cut your lawn for of the person who cuts your lawn now."

The woman responded that she was very satisfied with the person who was presently cutting her lawn.

The little boy found more perseverance and offered, "Lady, I'll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of."

Again the woman.

With a smile on his face, the little boy disconnected and replaced the receiver.

The druggist, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy and said, "Son... I really like your I like that positive spirit and your perseverance. I'm deeply impressed, and would like to offer you a job.

The little boy replied, "No thanks. I was just checking on the job I already have! The report about me is good!" Some of us simply forget that Feedback/Constructive Criticism from our Senior, Peers, Juniors, Vendors, Clients and Friends is the only way to improve the benchmark levels.......

Funny Medical definitions!

Funny Medical definitions!

Funny Medical definitions!

Anti-body - - Against everyone
Artery — The study of fine paintings
Bacteria — The back door of a cafeteria
Barium — What you do after CPR fails
Benign — What you are after you be eight and before you be ten
Cardiac arrest — Taken into custody after stealing a coupe Deville
CAT Scan — Searching for the kitty Cardiology
Advance — study of poker playing
Cauterize — To make eye contact with a woman
Cesarean section — A district in Rome Charlie
Horse — A 10 to 1 long shot in the Kentucky Derby
Colic — A sheep dog
Coma — A punctuation mark Congenital - Friendly
D&C — Where Washington is
Dilate — To live long Enema — Not a friend
Fibula — A small white lie
G.I. Series — A baseball game between teams of soldiers
Genes — What you wear cutting grass
Hangnail — A coat hook
Impotent - Distinguished, well known
Labor pain — Getting hurt at work
Medical staff — A doctor s cane
Morbid — A higher offer
Nitrates — Cheaper than the day rate
Node — Movement of head meaning yes
Organic — An organ work repairman
Paralyze — Two far fetched stories
Pharmacist — A person who makes living in agriculture
Phobopohobia — Fear of phobias, or fear itself
Pelvis — A cousin of Elvis
Post-operative — A letter carrier
Protein — In favor of young people
Rectum — Dang near killed em
Scalpel — What you stand on to clean windows in high rise buildings
Secretion — Hiding something
Seizure — A Roman emperor
Tablet — A small table
Terminal illness — Getting sick at the airport
Thalassotherophy — Fear of the sea Tumor — An extra pair
Urine — The opposite of “you are out
Vein - Conceited
Varicose - Nearby
Xenophobia — fear of strangers or foreigners

Did You Know?

Did You Know?



Eyes

Are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.

Eyes

Are composed of more than two million working parts.

Eyes

Can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.

Eyes

Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.

Eyes

Contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.

Eyes

Utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.

Eyes

Can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.

Eyes

In a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.

Eyes

The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.

Eyes

The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed -- the front portion.

Eyes

The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves "never" need rest. But please rest them!

Eyes

Eyes are your most precious sense... care for them properly!

Greetings SMS

Greetings SMS

• Delay is the enemy of efficiency, and waiting is the enemy of
utilization. So... don't delay anything and don't wait for anything.
Dud Day!

• When you want to enjoy life, think today as your life's First day.
When you want to achieve something in life, think today as your life's
Last day. Have a Gr8 Day!

• Success is like a beautiful girl it will leave us at any time, but
failure is like a mother it will teach us some important lessons of
life. Gud Day!

• Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the
end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. Gud Night!

• Morning is not only a surprise but a beautiful miracle of God that
defeats the darkness and spreads the light. May this be a beautiful
day. Gud Morning.

• If life is a game, I wish you to win. If life is a journey, I wish
you to walk on roses. If life is a joy, I wish you to always smile.
Have a great & successful day.
• Since your eyes are looking tired, let your eye lashes hug each other for few hours. Happy journey into the world of dreams.
Gud Night and Sweet Dreams.
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is
something to be enthusiastic about. Gud Day!

• Wrap a rainbow of joy in ur heart, let the sun paint a smile on ur
face, remove all clouds of doubt & fear and receive God's Gift of
Life. Good Morning.

• Smile in pleasure... Smile in pain... Smile when trouble pours like
rain... Smile when someone hurts u... Smile coz someone still loves to
see u Smilinig.

A to Z Happyness

A to Z Happyness

A--Accept
Accept others for who they are and for the choices they've made even ifyou have difficulty understanding their beliefs, motives, or actions.

B--Break
AwayBreak away from everything that stands in the way of what you hope to accomplish with your life.

C--Create
Create a family of friends whom you can share your hopes, dreams,sorrows, and happiness with.

D--Decide
Decide that you'll be successful and happy come what may, and good things will find you. The roadblocks are only minor obstacles along theway.

E--Explore
Explore and experiment. The world has much to offer, and you have much to give. And every time you try something new, you'll learn more about yourself.

F--Forgive
Forgive and forget. Grudges only weigh you down and inspire unhappinessand grief. Soar above it, and remember that everyone makes mistakes.

G--Grow
Leave the childhood monsters behind. They can no longer hurt you or stand in your way.

H--Hope
Hope for the best and never forget that anything is possible as long asyou remain dedicated to the task.

I--Ignore
Ignore the negative voice inside your head. Focus instead on your goals and remember your accomplishments. Your past success is only a smallinkling of what the future holds.

J--Journey
Journey to new worlds, new possibilities, by remaining open-minded. Tryto learn something new every day, and you'll grow.

K--Know
Know that no matter how bad things seem, they'll always get better. Thewarmth of spring always follows the harshest winter.

L--Love
Let love fill your heart instead of hate. When hate is in your heart, there's room for nothing else, but when love is in your heart, there'sroom for endless happiness.

M--Manage
Manage your time and your expenses wisely, and you'll suffer less stress and worry. Then you'll be able to focus on the important things in life.

N--Notice
Never ignore the poor, infirm, helpless, weak, or suffering. Offer yourassistance when possible, and always your kindness and understanding.

O--Open
Open your eyes and take in all the beauty around you. Even during the worst of times, there's still much to be thankful for.

P--Play
Never forget to have fun along the way. Success means nothing without happiness.

Q--Question
Ask many questions, because you're here to learn.

R--Relax
Refuse to let worry and stress rule your life, and remember that thingsalways have a way of working out in the end.

S--Share
Share your talent, skills, knowledge, and time with others. Everything that you invest in others will return to you many times over.

T--Try
Even when your dreams seem impossible to reach, try anyway. You'll be amazed by what you can accomplish.

U--Use
Use your gifts to your best ability. Talent that's wasted has no value. Talent that's used will bring unexpected rewards.

V--Value
Value the friends and family members who've supported and encouraged you, and be there for them as well.

W--Work
Work hard every day to be the best person you can be, but never feel guilty if you fall short of your goals. Every sunrise offers a secondchance.

X--X-Ray
Look deep inside the hearts of those around you and you'll see thegoodness and beauty within.

Y--Yield
Yield to commitment. If you stay on track and remain dedicated, you'llfind success at the end of the road.

Z--Zoom
Zoom to a happy place when bad memories or sorrow rears its ugly head.Let nothing interfere with your goals. Instead, focus on your abilities, your dreams, and a brighter tomorrow.