On Deserving Democracy

“Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

– George Bernard Shaw

On Shoes

“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he’ll be a mile away – and barefoot.”

– Sarah Jackson

On Hate

“Suggesting I hate ‘people with religion’ because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.”

– Ricky Gervais

 

On Overrated Things

“The four most overrated things in the world are lobsters, champagne, anal sex and picnics.”

– Christopher Hitchens

Anecdote: Dr Johnson

Dr Johnson once boasted that he could recite from memory whole chapters from Horrebow’s Natural History of Iceland, for example Chapter LXXII. The title and text of the chapter simply reads:

Concerning Snakes.

There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.

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In 40 US States, the highest paid public employee is the States’ leading college football or basketball head coach.

The Archbishop of Manila from 1974-2003 was called Cardinal Sin.

In 2012, the Swedish town Soderhamn paid people to look for work in Norway in an attempt to reduce soaring youth unemployment.

Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.

By twelfth grade, 65% of high school students will have engaged in sexual intercourse, and one in five sexually active teens will have had four or more sexual partners. Please note, according research published in 2012 by the non-profit Guttmacher Institute, all sex education delays teen sex.

See other: Quite Interesting Facts

On Cleverness

“Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.”

– Henri Frédéric Amiel

On Pizza

“We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.”

– Jeff Marder