Quotes ... this time about chocolate


A little too much chocolate is just about right.

I´d give up chocolate - but I´m no quitter!

Some people grow up and spread cheer. Chocoholics just grow up and spread.

In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Life´s greatest satisfactions include eating a bar of chocolate, getting the last laugh, having the last word, and paying the last installment.

From Little Books of Quotations, Country Studios 1999

Quotes ... about education

Picture taken from www.hr.pitt.edu/benefits

An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything.
Dame C. V. Wedgewood

I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
I do and I understand
Chinese proverb
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner

Did you know that ...

Carrots return to their roots

Picture taken from www.shelbyed.k12.al.us/ lunch.html"Generations of people in the West have grown up believing carrots are always orange," says the Times. But we were wrong. The Romans ate purple and white carrots, and black, green and red strains were also grown; in fact, the only reason Western carrots are orange is because Dutch growers favoured the colours of the House of Orange.

"Generace lidí na Západě vyrostly v přesvědčení, že mrkev je vždy oranžová," říkají v Times. Ale mýlili jsme se. Římané jedli fialovou a bílou mrkev, pěstovaly se i zelené a červené odrůdy; vlastně jediným důvodem, proč je západní mrkev oranžová, je že holandští pěstitelé dávali přednost barvám rodu Oranžských.

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