Quote by Matt Groening

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.-Matt Groening

The first brothers to win gold medals in the summer Olympic Games

The first brothers to win gold medals in the summer Olympic Games were Americans John and Summer Paine--they came first in the military pistol and free pistol shooting events respectively in 1896.

Quote on idols

Idols need not be smashed;they crumble of themselves.-Anonymous

Quote by Marilyn Monroe

Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?-Marilyn Monroe(1926-1962)

The only Olympian ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

The only Olympian ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Philip Noel-Baker of Great Britain ,who won the silver in the 1,500-meter dash in the 1920 Olympic Games.

The first twins to win Olympic gold medals

The first twins to win Olympic gold medals were the Swedish brothers Vilhelm Carlberg(3 golds) and Eric Carlberg(2 gold)in shooting in 1912.

Quote from Jerry Garcia

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best.You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.-Jerry Garcia

Quote from Joni Mitchell

Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.-Joni Mitchell

The first athlete to win gold medals at five consecutive Olympics

The first athlete to win gold medals in five consecutive Olympic Games was British rower Steven Redgrave in 2000.

The first Asian country to participate at the Olympic Games

The first Asian country to participate at the Olympic Games was Japan in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games.

The first Olympic mascot

The first Olympic mascot appeared at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games-Waldi the dachshund

Quote from Anthony Powell

Parents are sometimes a bit of disappointment to their children.They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.-Anthony Powell(1905-2000),English writer

Quote from Willie Davis

If you step on people in this life,you're going to come back as a cockroach.-Willie Davis

Another quote from Malcolm Muggeridge

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms,like a chast whore.-Malcolm Muggeridge

Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.-Malcolm Muggeridge

Quote on fear

Great daring often conceals great fear.-Lucan,Roman poet(Ad 39-65)

Interesting quote on nonconformity

Nonconformity is an empty goal,and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it.Indeed,it is often a mask for cowardice ,and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.-William H.Whyte,American author(1917-1999)

Quote on anti-Semites

If the Jews did not exist,the anti-Semites would create them.-Jean-Paul Sartre,in REFLEXIONS SUR LA QUESTION JUIVE

A Tunisian olive oil that you consumed

In August 2012,you bought and consumed a 500 ml glass bottle of Le Soleil De Carthage Extra-virgin olive oil from Tunisia.This brand of olive oil is excellent and highly recommendable.

Pigeon shooting as an Olympic sport

The barbaric sport of pigeon shooting was one of the sports at the Summer Olympic Games of Paris in 1900.Fortunately this shooting event was short-lived.It was the only time animals were killed during an Olympic event.

Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.-Malcolm Muggeridge

Quote from Marian Anderson

When you stop having dreams and ideals-----well,you might as well stop altogether.-Marian Anderson

Surprising quote from Malcolm Muggeridge

Travel,of course,narrows the mind.-Malcolm Muggeridge

Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

I beg you to believe that life is not a process,it's a drama.

Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

People do not believe lies because they have to,but because they want to.-Malcolm Muggeridge

Quote from Caroline Gordon

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.-Caroline Gordon

Quote from Les Brown

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.-Les Brown

Who was the first American woman to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games?

Answer.Margaret Abbott,in ladies golf at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris.

Quote from Anthony Powell

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.Books are unconvertible assets ,to be passed on only to those who possess them already.-Anthony Powell(1905-2000)

Quote on self-love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.-Anthony Powell(1905-2000),English writer.

Another quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed the way before.There are no channels marked.The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote from Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To give without any reward,or any notice,has a special quality of its own.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact.The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh,NORTH TO THE ORIENT.

Quote on veterinarians

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian.He can't ask his patients what is the matter---he's got to just know.-Will Rogers

What do Nigeria,Austria and Israel have in common?

Answer.Nigeria,Austria and Israel each failed to win any medal in the just-concluded 2012 London Summer Olympic Games.(The Olympic Games are overrated but Austria not getting any medal does surprise me).

Quote from Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote from Anthony Burgess

Bath twice a day to be really clean,once a day to be passably clean,once a week to avoid being a public menace.-Anthony Burgess

Quote by Pete Seeger

Songs are funny things.They can slip across borders.Proliferate in prisons.Penetrate hard shells.I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.-Pete Seeger

Quote on happiness and joy

For happiness one needs security,but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A great Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote on sleep from Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For sleep,one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into;daylight is too shallow,it will not cover me.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Another quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I feel we are all islands-in a common sea.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote on friendship

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break.Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote from Brian Tracy

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.-Brian Tracy

Quote from Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What a commentary on our civilization,when being alone is considered suspect;when one has to apologize for it,make excuses,hide the fact that one practices it-like some secret vice!-Anne Morrow Lindbergh(1906-2001),American author and aviator.

Quote from Jack Kerouac

The only people for me are the mad ones,the ones who are mad to live,mad to talk,mad to be saved,desirous of everything at the same time,the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,but burn,burn,burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.-Jack Kerouac

Quote by Stanislaw J.Lec

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.-Stanislaw J.Lec(1909-1966),Polish writer

Quote on scholars

Scholars should not study so much that they have no time to think.-Anonymous(Jewish)

Quote by Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life,pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.-Bruce Lee

Quote from Clemenceau

Everything I learned I learned after thirty.-Clemenceau(1841-1929)

A German proverb

He who remains seated on the floor cannot fall.-German proverb

Quote from Carl Sagan

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person,perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.To read is to voyage through time.-Carl Sagan

Quote from Joel McHale

Follow what your head is telling you and work hard.That's the big secret.-Joel McHale

Quote by Epicurus

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.-Epicurus,Greek philosopher(341-270 B.C)

Quote from Vince Lombardi

The harder you work,the harder it is to surrender.-Vince Lombardi

Quote from Jean Kerr

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical.He pretends to be polite and then,eventually ,he becomes polite.-Jean Kerr

Quote by Vince Lombardi

Confidence is contagious.So is lack of confidence.-Vince Lombardi

Quote from Virginia Woolf

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.-Virginia Woolf

Quote from Ernie Pyle

I feel so good because I sleep so well.I sleep so well because I stopped hating people a long time ago.-Ernie Pyle,``I Found No Peace.'`

Quote on Affectation

He walks as if balancing the family tree on his nose.-Raymond Moley,on affectation

Quote by Theophratus

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.-Theophratus

Quote by music composer Richard Wagner in favor of vegetarianism

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration.Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's supper.-German composer Richard Wagner(1813)

Quote from Louise Penny

Life is change.If you aren't growing and evolving,you're standing still,and the rest of the world is surging ahead.-Louise Penny,STILL LIFE

Two quotes from Mae West

1.Look your best-who said love is blind?-Mae West
2.Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.-Mae West

Quote by Bismarck

People never lie so much as after a hunt,during a war or before an elerction.-Otto Von Bismarck

Another quote by Mae West

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.-Mae West

Quote from Mae West

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.-Mae West

Quote by Mae West

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,but with somebody else.-Mae West

Quote from Mae West

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.-Mae West

Quote on wine

Wine makes every meal an occasion,every table more elegant,every day more civilized.-André Simon

Quote from Mae West

I didn't discover curves;I only uncovered them.-Mae West

Funny quote from Mae West

I've been in more laps than a napkin.-Mae West

Quote from William Frederick Book

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure,but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.-William Frederick Book

Quote from Mae West

I believe in censorship.I made a fortune out of it.-Mae West

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.-Oliver Goldsmith

A Latin proverb

The face is the index of the mind.-Latin saying

Quote from John Dewey

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.-John Dewey

Great quote by Andrew Carnegie

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people.It is a never failing spring in the desert.-Andrew Carnegie