updated: 元宵佳節
貧窮是一種罪惡。---栢楊
男人分兩截, 上半截和下半截。上半截是修養, 下半截是本質。---三聯生活週刊
"I am the wisest man in Athens because I know I don't know. I am only singularly ignorant. The rest of the citizens are twice ignorant. They think they know, but they still don't know." --Plato
「我都係想搵啖飯食o者, 如果我有槍實會去打劫,唔使好似而家偷o野俾人拉!」-- 餓極偷燒味飯被捕失業漢「商報」
美國武器可以殺人,但不能避免美人被殺。 -- 塔利班 奧馬爾
44: 阿富汗人的平均壽命, 屬於全世界最低。
只要你有財力, 年齡不是問題,身高不是距離, 體重不是壓力, 表現沒有關係。 -- 內地年輕人擇偶標準「搜狐」
資產就是能把錢放進你口袋裡的東西。負債是把錢從你口袋裡取走的東西。 --「富爸爸-窮爸爸」
我媽媽常教我, 如果跌倒在地上, 也一定要抓一把沙回來。 --科技大學校長朱經武
凡是老處女, 差不多都有兩下子, 或者學問大, 或者地位高, 或者銀子多, 或者道德好, 或者滿腹經倫, 或者能言善道, 反正任何一個老處女, 都不同於凡夫俗子, 如果她同於凡夫俗子, 她就得終於嫁人。 --柏楊
如果電影跟過生活一樣,那誰還會去看電影,過生活就好啦? --電影「一一」對白
早上醒來想的第一個人是誰,你就是愛上他了。 --電視劇"2000年我們結婚"
在股市里有無數的理論解釋漲跌，我卻很難理解。我的眼里股市漲跌和花開花落，春來冬去，生老病死是一樣的，
花開了就會謝，人生了就會死，股票漲了就會跌。
---一名署名「熊市」網友
8: the age at which one in six British girls now reaches puberty, compared with one in 100 of their parents' generation.
120 million: acts of sexual intercourse that take place around the world each day, which result in 910,000 conceptions.
80%: according to Queen Elizabeth II's bra supplier, the percentage of women who, because of poor fitting and improper measurements, were the wrong size brassiere.
5 p.m.: the best time of day to make love if you want to make babies, according to Italian researchers.
60 million: the estimated number of people aged 15-24 around the world who are looking for work but cannot find it.
4.14 million: the price paid at auction last week by an unnamed buyer for a silver dollar minted in 1834, more that double the previous record for a rare coin.
50,000: fatalities worldwide annually caused by snake bites; over 30000 of them occur in India.
855: measurement of the intensity of spiciness of the Indian Naga Jolokia chili, surpassing 577 for the Mexican habanero.
63: North Korean spies returned home from prison in the South who received "national unification prizes."
3:how many years each person spends suffering colds. In a 75-year lifetime the average person will have 200 colds, each lasting five or six days.
60%: the proportion of the world's couples who are using some method of birth control.
90,000: dogs to be killed on the Indonesian island of Flores to stop an outbreak of rabies that has killed 11 people.
1,789: kidnaps for ransom across the world in 1999;the most dangerous countries were Colombia, Mexico and the former Soviet Union.
200: pigs killed to make a world record 23-km, nine-ton sausage in Langogne, southern France.
94 million: hens' eggs eaten by Austria's 8 million inhabitants over the Easter holiday.
5,972 billion billion tons: weight of the earth, calculated by physicists in Washington.
32,863: Japanese suicides in 1998, three times the number of road deaths. 720 were children, many of who died in family suicides.
7 million: people in the world with liquid assets of more than $1 million.
$35 million: price of a Gulfstream jet for the personal use of President Museveni of Uganda, described by the IMF as a "heavily indebted poor country."
1,003: average seconds devoted to advertising breaks in one hour - or 3,600 seconds - of U.S. prime-time TV.
10 million: years that the earth's ecosystem would need to repopulate the planet with species to compensate for those driven to extinction by man.
19%: Japanese men in their 20s found to be overweight. Desk jobs, junk food and irregular mealtimes get the blames.
53: Cuban cigar brands sold worldwide. The island exported 148 million cigars in 1999 - 128 million of them hand rolled.
150 million: children aged six to 11 around the globe who are not in school. 90 million of them are girls.
13,000: number of cell phones left on public transport in London every year, overtaking umbrellas; 4,000 a year remain unclaimed.
300: the number of different languages regularly spoken within the boundaries of London.
33,000: the number of Chinese dams and dikes that will have to be reinforced because of poor construction. 3,200 dams have failed since 1949.
300 million: the number of smokers in China, more than in all the developed world. The Chinese government makes $10 billion a year in tobacco tax.
300,000: cashmere goats to be slaughtered to help prevent the desert from encroaching on Beijing in 2000.
1.5million: the number of chickens due to be slaughtered in Australia's Mangrove mountain Ridge region to contain an outbreak of Newcastle disease.
11,000: according to the WHO, the number of people who die each day from tobacco-related diseases.
3 million: the estimated number of people who have died as a result of earthquakes since 1900.