TRIVIA:
QUOTES:
CHUCKLES/BELLY
LAUGHS & GROANERS
TRIVIA:
Travel
Trivia
Did you know… The
average cruise ship burns approximately 1 gallon of fuel to move just 6
inches?
The wingspan of
Boeing’s 747 is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight?
Alaska has more
coastline than the entire continental United States combined? That’s
over 47,300 miles of places to get your feet wet!
By eliminating 1
olive from each salad served in first-class, American Airlines saved $40,000
in 1987?
Carnival Cruise
Lines puts more than 10 million chocolate mints on their guests’ pillows
every year?
Royal Caribbean’s
142,000 ton behemoth, “Voyager of the Seas,” is the first ship ever to
have its own zip code (33132-2028). Hosting up to 3,114 passengers,
it’s approximately 42,000 tons larger than the U.S. Navy’s largest
aircraft carrier, and features a 15,000 square foot fitness center, 9-hole
golf course, 200-foot rock-climbing wall, two-story library containing
over 3,000 books, and a regulation-size ice skating rink!
QUOTES:
Ah, summer, what
power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~Russel Baker
A perfect summer
day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing,
and the
lawn mower is broken.
~James Dent
Summer set lip to
earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed
print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson
In winter I get
up at night
And dress by yellow
candle-light.
In summer quite
the other way
I have to go to
bed by day.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
In June, as many
as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can
heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
~Aldo Leopold
I question not if
thrushes sing,
If roses load the
air;
Beyond my heart
I need not reach
When all is summer
there.
~John Vance Cheney
Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of
light
And she sits on
a sapphire throne.
~Barry Cornwall
In the depth of
winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus
There shall be eternal
summer in the grateful heart.
~Celia Thaxter
The summer night
is like a perfection of thought.
~Wallace Stevens
In summer, the song
sings itself.
~William Carlos
Williams
Deep summer is when
laziness finds respectability.
~Sam Keen
Summer has set in
with its usual severity.
~Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
A life without love
is like a year without summer.
~Swedish Proverb
Being a child at
home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your
mother at work
thirteen times
an hour, she can hurt you.
~Erma Bombeck
The coldest winter
I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
~Author unknown,
commonly misattributed to Mark Twain
Do what we can,
summer will have its flies.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heat, ma'am! it
was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to
take off my
flesh and sit in
my bones.
~Sydney Smith,
Lady Holland's Memoir
Rest is not idleness,
and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur
of
water, or watching
the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
~John Lubbock
Summer afternoon
- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful
words
in the English
language.
~Henry James
Love is to the heart
what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the
loveliest
flowers of the
soul.
~Author Unknown
Then followed that
beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the
air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created
in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Summer is the time
when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of
day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days
and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
~Ada Louise Huxtable