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Here is a collection of quotes from famous people. Find out "who said what" by clicking and dragging mouse between the stars revealling the famous person. Or you can... Submit a famous person quote "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." George Burns "Love conquers all things....except poverty and toothache." Mae West "There is a great woman behind every idiot" John Lennon

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." Douglas Adams "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die." Mel Brooks "I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people" Jackie Mason I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." Woody Allen "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" Albert Einstein "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius "If a man does his best, what else is there?" General George S. Patton "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." Vince Lombardi "I would have made a good Pope." Richard M. Nixon It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." George Bernard Shaw "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." Al Capone "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain "I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television." Gore Vidal

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby "We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." Will Rogers "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damm fool about it" W.C. Fields "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take that the chance?" Ronald Reagan "Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out." Satchel Paige "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King Jr. "I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." John F. Kennedy "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." Socrates "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." Elvis Presley "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." Ingrid Bergman "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." Tom Clancy "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Sir Winston Churchill "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." General Douglas MacArthur "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans." Ronald Reagan

Did you know that?

1.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 2. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 3. A whale's penis is called a dork. 4. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 5. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. 6. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. 7. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. 8. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. 9. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly. 10. Reindeer like to eat bananas. 11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple. 12. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." 13. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. 14. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 15. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. 16. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 17. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. 18. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Words for the Wise, Enhance your vocabulary

eddy • \EH-dee\ • (noun) 1 : a current of water or air running contrary to the main current; especially : whirlpool 2 : a contrary or circular current (as of thought or policy) Example sentence: Our white-water raft got caught in an eddy, spun once, twice, then careened off a huge rock and plunged back into the main current and on down the river.

shill • \SHILL\ • (verb) 1 : to act as a decoy especially for a gambler or pitchman 2 : to act as a spokesperson or promoter Example sentence: Corporations love to get celebrities to shill for their products,and the better known the star, the more the public seems to trust their pitch.

pundit • \PUN-diht\ • (noun) 1 : a learned person : teacher 2 : authority, critic Example sentence: As soon as the controversial story broke, political pundits started discussing its implications on every news show and in every major newspaper in the country.

mordant • \MORE-dent\ • (adjective) 1 : biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style :incisive 2 : burning, pungent Example sentence: Though Douglas laughed off Carrie's mordant remark good-naturedly, inside he felt the sting of its painful truth.

sedulous • \SEH-juh-luhs\ • (adjective) 1 : involving or accomplished with careful perseverance 2 : diligent in application or pursuit Example sentence: Daphne was a sedulous student whose hard work and determination earned her a number of college scholarships.

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