July 11, 2006


Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Warren Buffett

To get
Away from
Hairy apes
Ladies jump
From fire escapes
Burma Shave 1936


When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

Russell Baker

ANIMALS
Part 12 of 32

Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.

In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.

Infant beavers are called kittens.

It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert Green Ingersoll

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too high, the other will be weakened too much. It is the happiest possible mode of conciliating these objects, to institute one branch peculiarly endowed with sensibility, another with knowledge and firmness. Through the opposition and mutual control of these bodies, the government will reach, in its regular operations, the perfect balance between liberty and power.

Alexander Hamilton

What goes up and never comes down?

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.


There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.