Quote for Today

"If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty."
Jack Nicklaus

Quote for Today

"Golf is not a funeral, although both can be very sad affairs."
Bernard Darwin (1876-1961), British Columnist

Quote for Today

Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad.
Jessica Hahn

Quote for Today

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

Quote for Today

"If you drop the pass in football, or miss the shot in basketball, or strike out in baseball, everybody knows it. If you hit a bad shot in golf, you can always claim you know a shortcut to the green. At least that's my story."
Bob Hope

Quote for Today

"If a lot of people gripped a knife like they do a golf club, they would starve to death."
Sam Snead, American professional golfer

Quote for Today

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

Quote for Today

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
Vice President Al Gore

Quote for Today

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
Ho Chi Minh

Quote for Today

I've never heard of any president being so close to his people.
Ho Chi Minh

Quote for Today

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
Pamela Anderson

Quote for Today

In junior high a boy poured water down my shirt and yelled, "Now maybe they'll grow".
Pamela Anderson

Quote for Today

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
Pamela Anderson

Quote for Today

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

Quote for Today

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson

Quote for Today

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein

Fact for Today

The term history comes from the Greek word historia.

Fact for Today

BRIZO, was an ancient goddess worshipped in Delos.

Quote for Today

My Duty is like that of a helmsman who must steer safely the boat - the Fatherland - through storms and take people to the shores of happiness.
Ho Chi Minh

Quote for Today

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.
Jim Bakker

Quote for Today

I don't have children. I would have liked children, but right now I have dogs.
Jessica Hahn

Quote for Today (Funny)

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
Vice President Al Gore

Quote for Today

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.
Kirstie Alley

Quote for Today

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.
Jessica Alba

Quote for Today

I think the devil was mad. I think something so wonderful and beautiful was being built, that the devil was mad.
Jim Bakker

Quote for Today

I got involved in cocaine because I needed to lose weight. I felt the pressure living here. I took it to wake me up and keep me moving.
Jessica Hahn

Quote for Today

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.
Jessica Hahn

Quote for Today

He made his bed. I don't give a damn. Consensual my ass. Excuse me.
Jessica Hahn

Quote for Today

I did one Playboy video. After I went on Howard Stern, it sold out in two hours. I was the first to do that. I was nude. I was on horseback.
Jessica Hahn

Quote for Today

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.
Jessica Hahn

Quote for Today

I'm very moved to be here today. Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.
Ho Chi Minh

Quote for Today

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.
Ho Chi Minh

Quote for Today

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Ho Chi Minh

Quote for Today

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara

Quote for Today

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams

Quote for Today

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
Samuel Adams

Quote for Today

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams

Quote for Today

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams

Quote for Today

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams

Quote for Today

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
Ho Chi Minh

Quote for Today

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams

Quote for Today

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Che Guevara

Quote for Today

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh

Quote for Today

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams

Quote for Today

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara

Quote for Today

I have been fighting the Communists all my life... Ho Chi Minh is a murderer. We cannot forget.
Ho Chi Minh

Quote for Today

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Che Guevara

Quote for Today

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams

Quote for Today

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Samuel Adams

Quote for Today

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevara

Quote for Today

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Che Guevara

Quote for Today

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams

Quotes for Today

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Ho Chi Minh

Quotes for Today

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
Jessica Hahn

Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.
Jim Bakker

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker

Actress Quotes

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!
Kirstie Alley

Actress Quotes

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
Kirstie Alley

Actress Quotes

I'm good at being sarcastic with guys. They don't want the quiet, prissy little things.
Jessica Alba

Actress Quotes

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.
Kirstie Alley

Actress Quotes

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
Jessica Alba

Actress Quotes

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
Kirstie Alley

Actress Quotes

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.
Jessica Alba

Quote for Today

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin

Actress Quotes

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.
Kirstie Alley

Actress Quotes

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
Jessica Alba

Actress Quotes

And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson

Actress Quotes

I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to.
Kirstie Alley

Actress Quotes

I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.
Jessica Alba

Quote for Today

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
Oscar Wilde

Quote for Today

"The world is my country and mankind are my brothers."
Thomas Paine

Quote for Today

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant

Quote for Today

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quote for Today

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Samuel Johnson

Quote for Today

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
H. G. Wells

Quote for Today

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Albert Einstein

Quote for Today

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote for Today

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote for Today

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King Jr

Quote for Today

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote for Today

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
Brigham Young

Quote for Today

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote for Today

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young

Quote for Today

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Quotes for Today

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote for Today

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young

Fact for Today

The Brooklyn bridge, begun in 1872, had a center span of 1595 and side spans of 930 ft. The Brooklyn approach being 971 ft., and the New York approach 1562 ft., the total length of the
bridge was 5989 ft.

Facts for Today

Yellowstone National Park's Steamboat Geyser, considered the largest in the world, erupts as high as three hundred feet.

The capital of the state of Texas has been changed fifteen times.

The world's first train robbery took place on July 21, 1873, at Adair, Iowa, by the famous outlaw Jesse James.

Fact for Today

The largest masonry arch in 1903 was the Adolphe bridge in Luxemburg, which was erected between 1900-1903, with a span of 278 ft.

Facts for Today

William Shakespeare died in 1616, at the age of fifty-two.

Ringworm is a fungus not a worm.

Facts for Today

Water rushes over the precipices of Niagra Falls at the rate of 500,000 tons a minute.

Radio City Music Hall, the largest indoor theatre in the world at that time, was opened to the public on December 27, 1932, in New York City.

Facts for Today

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe.

The Statue of Liberty was erected in 1886.

Facts for Today

The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, is 984 feet high.
Irving Berlin reportedly received thirty-three cents for the first song that he wrote.

Today most songwriters will not get out of bed for less than $33,000!(Tongue-in-cheek)

Facts for Today

A deep sea diver, when he's at a depth of 160 feet below the oceans surface breathes five times as much oxygen as he normally would breathe at the surface.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln instituted the first income tax law in American history.(bastard)

Facts for Today

The reported cost of manufacturing the first atomic bomb was two billion dollars.
Amazing fact, a seven-pound codfish can produce seven million eggs at a time.

Fact for Today

More than 620,000 soldiers and civilians died in the American Civil War, 2% of the nation's population in 1860.

Fact for Today

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) was a U.S. Cavalry officer who, along with 210 troopers, died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876.

Quote for Today (Funny)

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
Vice President Al Gore, 1997

Fact for Today

Sherlock Holmes, the great detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, appears in a total of 54 short stories, and 4 novels.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was born on May 22, 1859.

Fact for Today

BRIAREUS, or AEGAEON, in Greek mythology, was one of the three hundred-armed,
fifty-headed Hecatoncheires, brother of Cottus and Gyges (or Gyes).

Quote for Today

"Youth is wasted on the young."
Mark Twain

Fact for Today

NYSE
October 23, 1868: Memberships in the exchange were made saleable.

Quote for Today

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
Vice President Al Gore, 1998

Fact for Today

The writer Anne Rice's real name is: Howard Allen O'Brien

Quote for Today (Funny)

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
Vice President Al Gore, 1993.

NYSE Fact

September 18, 1873: Stock Exchange closed at noon because of failure of Jay Cooke & Co., promoters of Northern Pacific Railroad. Many failures were imminent.

Quote for Today

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
Mahatma Gandhi

On December 18, 1732, Benjamin Franklin began publication of 'Poor Richard's Almanac'.

Quote for Today

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant

Quote for Today

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
Vice President Al Gore

Fact for Today

On May 25, 1935, Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run.

Quote for Today

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison

Facts for Today

The earth is traveling through space at the rate of 72,600 miles an hour, or 1,100 miles every minute.

The population of the United States was seven million in 1810.

The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece.

Fact for Today

The estimated weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 6,648,000 tons.

Quote for Today

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
Vice President Al Gore

Facts for Today

Ashley Judd's real name is Ashley Tyler Ciminella.

Cher's real name is Cherilyn Sarkisian.

Elvis Costello's real name is Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus.

Quote for Today

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
Vice President Al Gore, 9/5/93

Quote for Today

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
Aldous Huxley

Fact for Today

N.Y.S.E. Fact
November 15, 1867 . Stock tickers were first introduced.

Fact for Today

Jacqueline Cochran was the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Quote for Today

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

Quote for Today

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte

Fact for Today

Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A., was chartered in 1769.
It's Motto is: Vox clamantis in deserto (The voice of one crying in the wilderness.)

Quote for Today

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
Bertrand Russell

Facts for Today

As early as 1769, Daniel Boone, passed through the Cumberland Gap and brought back news of a wonderful country awaiting the plow.

Quote for Today

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
Salvador Dali

Facts for Today

Harvard University was founded in 1636.
Yale university opened in 1718.
They were intended primarily to train learned and godly ministers for the Puritan churches of New England.

American Cival War Fact

General Lee surrendered his army to General Grant on April 9th, 1865.

Quote for Today

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Thomas Jefferson

Quote for Today

Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
Rita Mae Brown

Fact for Today

The brewing trade in the United Kingdom reached the
maximum production of 37,090,986 barrels in 1900.

Fact for Today

When a mania of persecution swept over Massachusetts in 1692, eighteen people were hanged, one was pressed to death, many suffered imprisonment, and two died in jail.

Quote for Today

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared.'"
Vice President Al Gore, 12/6/93

Fact for Today

Benjamin Franklin recorded in 1771 that America had twenty-five
newspapers. Boston led with five. Philadelphia had three:

Quote for Today

It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Quote for Today

Socrates: True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Fact for Today

Andrew Jackson was the only president of the United States to marry the same woman twice.

Quote for Today

'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Samuel Johnson

Fact For Today

Bricks of Old

We know that well-burnt (heat-treated) bricks were made by the
Babylonians more than 6000 years ago.

Country Facts

China:
Capital: Beijing
Population: approx: 1,313,973,000
Area: in sq. km. 9,596,960
Country code: cn

Quote for Today

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.
Anonymous

Fact for Today

Twenty-four percent of the state of California is classified as desert.

Fact for Today

Twelve pounds of nitrogen per acre falls on the earth each year as a result of lightning.

Quote for Today

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

Joke for Today

The madam of a brothel has a problem, so she goes to a local priest. "I have two talking female parrots," she tells him. "All they can say is ‘Hi, we’re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?’"
"That’s awful," the priest agrees, "but I have a solution to your problem. I have two male parrots whom I’ve taught to pray and read the Bible. If we put your parrots with mine, I believe yours will stop saying that awful phrase and will instead learn to recite the word of God."
The next day, the madam brings her parrots to the priest’s house and puts them in with the male parrots, who are holding rosary beads and praying in their cage.
"Hi, we’re prostitutes." say the females. "Do you want to have some fun?"
One male parrot looks at the other and squawks, "Close the Bible, Frank! Our prayers are answered!"

Quote for Today

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

Fact for Today

N.Y.S.E. Fact
November 15, 1867
Stock tickers were first introduced.

Joke for Today

Neighbour:_ "I hear that you had an actor employed on your farm."
Farmer:_ "Yes, and he's a fairly good actor, too. Why, I thought he was
working the whole week he was here."

Life-saving Fact

Two recent graduates of Hamilton’s McMaster University who invented a live-saving glove have been recognized by Popular Science magazine. The glove they invented will be honoured as one of this years top 10 inventions and will be featured in June’s issue of Popular Science.
The glove is a one size fits all nylon glove filled with sensors which monitor compressions administered during C.P.R. The sensors register the frequency and depth of those compressions which are then shown on a display for the user to see.
After learning that most people forget C.P.R. training after six months, the students came up with the life-saving glove idea.

More Quotes

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future.
- Chinese proverb
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

Today's Joke

A man walks up to his house and notices his grandfather sitting on the porch, in the rocking chair, with nothing on from the waist down.
“Grandpa, what are you doing?” he exclaims. The old man looks off in the distance without answering. “Grandpa, what are you doing sitting out here with nothing on below the waist?” he asks again.
The old man slowly looks at him and says, “Well, last week I sat out here with no shirt on, and I got a stiff neck. This is your grandma’s idea.”

Jokes

If a man is talking in the woods and no woman hears him…is he still wrong?

An old Newfoundlander walks into a bar, hauls his bad leg over the stool, and asks for a whiskey. "Hey," he says, looking down the bar, "is that Jesus down there?" The bartender nods, so the Newfoundlander orders Jesus one too.
An ailing Quebecer with a humpback walks in, shuffles up to the bar, and asks for a glass of wine. Noticing Jesus, the Quebecer orders Him a glass of wine too.
A Cape Bretoner swaggers in and hollers, "Barkeep, set me up a cold one! Hey—is that God’s Boy down there?" The bartender nods, so the Cape Bretoner orders Him a bottle of beer.
As Jesus gets up to leave, He touches the Newfoundlander and says, "For your kindness, you are healed!" The Newfoundlander jumps up and dances a jig.
Then Jesus touches the Quebecer and says, "For your kindness, you are healed!" The Quebecer's humpback straightens, and he does a flip.
Just then the Cape Bretoner yells out, "Don’t touch me! I’m drawing disability!"

One day, three boys were walking over a bridge when they heard a guy yelling for help. It was President Bush. He was drowning, and the three boys rescued him. He thanked them dearly and promised them whatever they wanted as a reward.
The first boy wanted $10,000, so Bush gave him the money. The second boy wanted a Ferrari, so Bush gave the boy a Ferrari.
The third boy wanted a wheelchair, Bush said, “Why do you want one of those, son, you're not handicapped.” The boy replied, “I will be when my dad finds out whose life I saved.”

Quotes On Golf

"If a lot of people gripped a knife like they do a golf club, they would starve to death."
Sam Snead, American professional golfer

"Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss."
Anonymous

"Golf is not a funeral, although both can be very sad affairs."
Bernard Darwin (1876-1961), British Columnist

"The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure."
American writer Milton Gross (1912-1973)

"If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game would be played far better than it is.
Horace Hutchinson from Hints on the Game of Golf - 1886.

N.Y.S.E. Facts

On March 8, 1817 the New York Stock Exchange adopted a constitution and the name of "New York Stock & Exchange Board".

March 16, 1830 Dullest day in history of Stock Exchange. Thirty-one shares of stock were traded in: 26 shares of United States Bank at 119 and 5 shares of Morris Canal and Banking Co. at 75 1/4. (From The New York Stock Exchange, by E. Clarence Stedman.)