George Burns — original name Nathan Birnbaum – was born in in 1896 in New York, and died aged 100 in Beverly Hills, California. He was a comedian, an award-winning actor, and a best-selling writer.

As he got older much of his humor was age-related, which is reflected in these quotes.

His career career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television. His arched eyebrows, dead-pan delivery, and cigar smoking punctuation became familiar trademarks for over 75 years.

When most people are way past retirement age, George Burns was still working. Notably, at the age of 79, he took on the role of Al Lewis in the movie adaption of Neil Simon’s stage play “The Sunshine Boys,” playing opposite Walter Mathau.

For this he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and was the oldest person ever to have received an Oscar at that time.

He continued to work until shortly before his death in 1996.

But George Burns’ humor lives on and is exemplified in these quotes:

1. I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
   

2. When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
3. Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
4. If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.

5. Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

6. If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.
7. You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
8. First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
9. Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.

10. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

11. I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.
12. I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
13. I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
14. I can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.
15. How can I die? I’m booked.

Of course, George Burns DID die – eventually – but at least he left us his quotes.

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Warren Edward Buffett, 83, is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely thought to be the most successful investor of the 20th century.

We don’t guarantee that these Warren Buffet quotes will make you a millionaire – but it can’t hurt to read them.

Buffet’s investment vehicle is his company, Berkshire Hathaway. He was once ranked the world’s wealthiest person, and is in the top ten every year. His nett worth in 2013 was around $60 billion, so he must be doing something right!

Buffett, sometimes called the “Wizard of Omaha,” is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for living a personally frugal life. He is also a notable philanthropist and has pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

As a result, his three children will not see much of his money. Buffet told The New York Times: “I don’t believe in dynastic wealth,” calling those who grow up in wealthy circumstances “members of the lucky sperm club.”

Well, you may not be a member of that club, so all the more reason to study our Warren Buffet quotes:

1. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

2. Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
3. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
4. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
5. Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

6. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

7. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
8. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

9. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

10. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
11. When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

12. Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

13. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
14. Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
15. I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

These Warren Buffet quotes show that he is not only good at making money; he also has an ascerbic wit.

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George Denis Patrick Carlin was born in 1937 and died at the age of 71 in California. Carlin was a comedian, writer, social critic, and actor. He was known for his black comedy as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects.

The quotes which we have chosen reflect George Carlin’s acerbic way of looking at life.

Carlin had a standup routine in which he uttered the so called “seven dirty words” in order to demonstrate his views on free speech. This resulted in his involvement in a landmark court case in which – by a 5-4 majority – the U.S. Supreme court ruled that the government had the right to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves.

These words are NOT included in our LifeDaily list of George Carlin quotes!

But there are a lot of other good words to amuse or annoy you. Take a look:

1. Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

2. Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
3. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

4. People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

5. Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.
6. Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

7. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

8. If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
9. By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
10. The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

11. You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

12. ‘I am’ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‘I do’ is the longest sentence?
13. I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
14. If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
15. I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

These George Carlin quotes are only the tip of the iceberg.

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Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Rodney Cohen in 1921 in New York, and died aged 82 in Los Angeles, California.

Dangerfield was married three times, which included two marriages to the same woman, Joyce Indig. Following their second divorce, he remained single for over 20 years before marrying his second wife. Joan Child, who was with him until his death.

Perhaps what happened in those marriages contributed to Rodney Dangerfield’s one-liners about the subject.

Dangerfield’s stage personna was that of a belligerent loser. He very much resented the fact people did not understand that was not his real life personality. Joan Child characterized him as “classy, gentlemanly, sensitive, and intelligent.”

In 2003 he was hospitalized, needing brain surgery. When entering the hospital he was asked how long he would be there. He instantly replied: “If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half.”

Just another example of a perfect Rodney Dangerfield one-liner.

Checkout our selection of his thoughts about marriage:

1. I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
2. With my wife I don’t get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to ‘the best woman a man ever had.’ The waiter joined me.
3. My wife can’t cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.
4. What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
5. My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
6. My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
7. I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.
8. My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
9. My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
10. I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
11. My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.
12. We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
    
13. My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
14. My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
15. It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.

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Salvador Dali was born in Figuerres,Spain in 1904 and died in the same town in 1989 at the age of 84. His full name, amazingly, was Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol.

With a name like that, it is not surprising that Dali was not – and did not consider himself – to be a regular person.

Some of the Salvador Dali quotes we have chosen reflect his awareness of his character and ego.

He is best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist paintings, but his expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931.

Dalí enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork.

Look through the quotes we have selected to gain an insight into the character of Salvador Dali:

1. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
2. There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
3. Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
4. Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
5. There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
6. Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
7. The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
8. The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
9. Let my enemies devour each other.
10. Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
11. Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
12. Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Do you understand from these quotes whether Salvador Dali was a genius, or mad, or both!

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Henry “Henny” Youngman was born in Liverpool, England in 1906 and died in New York when he was 91 years old.

The columnist, Walter Winchell, dubbed Youngman ‘The King of the One-Liners.’

When you look through our selection of Henny Youngman one-liners, you’ll understand why.

Youngman’s marriage to Sadie Cohen lasted over 60 years – extraordinary in show business terms.

Heny did not start out as a comedian. He actually was a musician and played the violin. He once led a small jazz band and during their performances he often told jokes.

One night, the club’s regular comedian didn’t show up and the owner asked Youngman to fill in. He enjoyed it and thus began his long career as a stand-up comic.

Thereafter his violin was his stage prop, but he held it more often than he played it. He would deliver the jokes in a rapid-fire style, telling dozens in just 10 minutes. His wife was frequently the butt of his jokes, as were Jews.

That’s the short bio, now enjoy these Henny Youngman one-liners

1. Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.
2. A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
3. If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.
4. Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
5. I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.
6. I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.
7. The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
8. I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
9. I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.
10. She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
11. A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
12. Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.
13. Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.
14. Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
15. What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

These Henny Youngman one-liners come from a different era of comedy.

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Confucius (551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity.

However, most people hearing the name Confucious – connected to sayings – think only of the one-liners that have somehow evolved, turning this wise philosopher into a figure of fun.

“Man go to bed with itchy bum; wake up with smelly finger”, is NOT a genuine Confucious saying!

Confucius’s principles had a basis in common Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of elders by their children and of husbands by their wives.

Sadly, most of those values have not survived to the modern world. However, various adaptations of one basic principle he espoused have survived. He proclaimed an early version of the so called Golden Rule: “Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.”

Browse our selection of the real sayings of Confucious to change your view of him:

1. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
2. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
3. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
   
4. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
5. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
6. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
   
7. He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
8. When anger rises, think of the consequences
9. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
10. You cannot open a book without learning something.
    
11. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
12. The cautious seldom err.

So those are the genuine sayings of Confucious.

In the future we will publish an article illustrating the somewhat less respectful versions.

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Charles Monroe Schulz was born in Minnesota in 1922 and died aged 77 in Santa Rosa, California.

He was one of the most famous cartoonists in the world, thanks to the extraordinary success of his ‘Peanuts’ comic strip, which featured the characters of Snoopy and Charlie Brown.

These quotes from Charles M. Schultz look as if they came from the comic strip – and probably did.

He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time and is cited as a major influence by many later cartoonists.

“Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson wrote:

Peanuts pretty much defines the modern comic strip, so even now it’s hard to see it with fresh eyes. The clean, minimalist drawings, the sarcastic humor, the unflinching emotional honesty, the inner thoughts of a household pet, the serious treatment of children, the wild fantasies, the merchandising on an enormous scale — in countless ways, Schulz blazed the wide trail that most every cartoonist since has tried to follow.

Praise indeed, and well deserved.

When you browse our selection of the quotes of Charles M. Schultz you’ll see why:

1. I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.
   
2. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
3. Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
4. I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.
5. Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’
6. Jogging is very beneficial. It’s good for your legs and your feet. It’s also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
7. You’re a good man, Charlie Brown.
   
8. Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
9. Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
10. There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.
11. That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another.
    
12. There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

That was a small selection of the quotes of Charles M. Schultz.

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Jerome Allen “Jerry” Seinfeld, 60, is an American comedian, actor, writer, and television/film producer.

His career started as a stand-up comedian specializing in observational humor. He often focused on personal relationships and uncomfortable social obligations.

Some of that comes across in the Jerry Seinfeld quotes selected by our LifeDaily team.

Of course, Jerry Seinfeld is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the TV sitcom, Seinfeld, which ran from 1989–1998. He co-created and co-wrote the show with Larry David.

Although the last episode was screened a generation ago, the constant re-runs ensure that the show still attracts new, but somewhat younger, fans.

In 2005, Comedy Central ranked Jerry Seinfeld 12th out of 100 as the greatest comedians of all time.

These Jerry Seinfeld quotes may explain why:

1. There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
   
2. It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
3. You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’
   
4. A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
5. Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
6. Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
   
7. Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.
8. Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
9. Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
   
10. The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‘Bye!
11. My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
12. People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

So, these jokes represent the very particular humor of Jerry Seinfeld.

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Robin McLaurin Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois in 195, and died near Tiburon, California on August 11, 2014 at the age of 63.

Williams was an American actor, comedian, film producer, and screenwriter whose career was launched on TV in 1978 when he played the part of a space alien in the series Mork & Mindy.

Subsequently he achieved success in stand-up comedy; these Robin Williams quotes show why.

He also established a career as a movie actor, and featured in such acclaimed films as: The World According to Garp (1982), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society(1989), Awakenings (1990), The Fisher King (1991), and Good Will Hunting (1997).

On August 11, 2014, Robin Williams was found dead at his residence in Marin County, California. According to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, he hanged himself and died of asphyxiation.

Williams was recently receiving treatment for clinical depression, and it has now emerged that he also had severe financial problems with potential bankruptcy looming. The combination of these circumstance may have been the reason he took his own life.

It is ironic that one of Robin Williams best known quotes was:

Suicide is just a permanent solution to a short term problem

The first quote we have chosen is probably the most prophetic:

1. In America they really do mythologize people when they die.
   
2. You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
3. Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
4. I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.
   
5. The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses’. She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’
6. Ah, yes, divorce… from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
7. Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.
8. When in doubt, go for the dick joke.
   
9. Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn’t work!
10. Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
    
11. The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
12. You can start any ‘Monty Python’ routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
13. Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
    
14. I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was… a large Arctic region covered with ice.
15. When you look at Prince Charles, don’t you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

These Robin Williams quotes certainly give an insight into what many refer to as his “flawed genius.”

His bittersweet definition of divorce (#7) is a reflection that he went through two of them, which were both emotionally difficult, and financially expensive.

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Herbert George “H. G.” Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, and died three weeks short of his 80th birthday in London in 1946.

H.G Wells commented on many subjects, as this selection of his eclectic quotes clearly demonstrates.

Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary. He even wrote textbooks and rules for war games. Today, he is best remembered for his science fiction novels, and has sometimes been called the father of science fiction.

His best known works are: The War of the Worlds,The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Wells trained as a biologist which caused his thinking on ethical matters to be essentially Darwinian. Politically, he was an outspoken socialist, often sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction.

Wells’s literary reputation declined as he spent his later years promoting causes that were rejected by most of his contemporaries as well as younger authors whom he had previously influenced. In this connection, George Orwell described him as “too sane to understand the modern world.”

You can judge for yourself whether H.G.Wells was sane or not by browsing through these quotes:

1. Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
2. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
   
3. If we don’t end war, war will end us.
4. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
5. The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
6. Advertising is legalized lying.
7. What really matters is what you do with what you have.
8. The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
9. The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
   
10. Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
11. Cynicism is humor in ill health.
12. Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
    
13. The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
14. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
15. Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

H.G. Wells certainly had opinions on many things, as these quotes prove.

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The cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, attraction, affection, respect, greeting, friendship, peace, and good luck, among many others.

In some modern Western cultures, kissing on the cheek is regarded as an expression of affection. Obviously, there is a huge difference between that and kissing on the lips.

Kissing on the lips is a physical expression of affection or love between two people in which the sensations of touch, taste, and smell are involved.

When the lips are pressed together for an extended period, usually accompanied by an embrace, it is an indication of romantic and sexual desire. The practice of kissing with an open mouth, or moving the tongue into the mouth, has come to be called “French kissing.”

Kissing on the lips can be dangerous!

It is possible for kissing to result in the transmission of some diseases, including the infectious of mononucleosis and herpes simplex when the infectious viruses are present in saliva.

Browse our LifeDaily selection of other surprisng facts about kissing:

When you kiss someone for the first time, you get a spike in the neurotransmitter dopamine, making you crave more. Dopamine can make you lose your appetite and cause difficulties with sleeping.

Two thirds of people tilt their head to the right when they kiss. This fact was discovered by

German researcher Onur Güntürkün after spying on 224 couples kissing in public places in the United States, Germany and Turkey.

Kissing helps us work out if someone is a good match. Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher says we tend to prefer people with particular biological profiles. Trading saliva is one way to figure out if someone is a good fit.

When you kiss, your heart beats faster and more oxygen reaches your brain. This is due to the neurotransmitters epinephrine and norepinephrine which promote the fight-or-flight response. It also makes the pupils dilate, which explains why we usually close our eyes when kissing.

The muscle used to pucker the lips is called the “orbicularis oris.” The shape made with the mouth mirrors that of a breastfeeding baby, which is one possible way that kissing evolved.

Kissing triggers the release of oxytocin in your body. Sometimes called the “love hormone,” oxytocin is involved in developing feelings of attachment.

Women rate kissing as more important in relationships than men do and tend to use kissing to assess potential mates; men use it to increase the likelihood of sex.

The world record for the longest kiss stands at well over two days. It is held by a Thai couple, Ekkachai Tiranarat and Laksana Tiranarat, who set it in the run up to Valentine’s day last year. The kiss lasted 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds.

Over time, kissing lowers your levels of stress hormone cortisol, making you feel safe and secure.The longer you’ve been with someone, the bigger the decline.

Your lips have a disproportionate number of nerve endings compared to other parts of your body. When your lips touch someone else’s 5 out of 12 of your cranial nerves are engaged.You’re brain is basically trying to gather as much information as it can about the other person.

Most people remember their first kiss more vividly than the first time they had sex.

Interestingly, John Bohannon of Butler University asked 500 people about their memories of important life experiences, including their first kiss and losing their virginity.

The first kiss beat everything as the most detailed memory!

Do you remember your first kiss with pleasure or horror?

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Ann Landers never really existed!

It was a pen name created in 1943 by a Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist named Ruth Crowley, and taken over by Eppie Lederer in 1955.

The “Ask Ann Landers” advice column was a regular syndicated feature in many newspapers across North America for 56 years. This popularity led to the fictional Ann Landers becoming something of a national institution and cultural icon.

It is from these columns that the LifeDaily team selected the pieces of advice shown below.

Ruth Crowley was a Chicago nurse who had been writing a child-care column for the Sun since 1941. She chose the pseudonym at random, taking the surname ‘Landers’ from a family friend. Unlike her eventual successor Esther Lederer, Crowley kept her identity secret.

Lederer wrote the advice column from 1955 -2002 and changed its basis by including expert advice on many subjects. She eventually became the owner of the copyright but chose not to have a different writer continue the column after her death. Consequently, the “Ann Landers” column ceased after publication of the few weeks’ worth of material which she had already written.

She sometimes expressed unpopular opinions, such as her support for the legalization of prostitution. For many years she denounced homosexuality but reversed her opinion in 1992 after reviewing research and receiving nearly 75,000 letters from gays and lesbians saying that they were happy being gay.

“Ann Landers” gave thousands of pieces of advice over the years.

Browse our selection to understand why she was so popular for almost 60 years:

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

I don’t believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.

At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you’ll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

That was just a small selection of the advice of Ann Landers over the years.

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Phyllis Diller was born in 1917 in Lima, Ohio and died in Los Angeles in 2012 at the age of 95.

She was best known as a stand-up comedienne, but she was also an actress, and voice artist. Her stage persona was eccentric with her image of wild hair and outlandish clothes.

Phyllis Diller excelled at stand-up comedy, as you can see from the one-liners our LifeDaily team has chosen.

Diller actually started in the entertainment business relatively late in life, after having spent the first dozen years after her first marriage being a housewife, mother, and advertising copywriter. She began her show business career working at KROW radio in Oakland, California in 1952.

Although she eventually worked as a comedienne, Diller had studied the piano for many years. She decided against a career in music because she didn’t think she was good enough.

Apart from comedy, she also did quite a lot of voice acting, featuring in such movies as A Bug’s Life, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and Robot Chicken.

However, it’s Phyllis Diller’s stand-up comedy that most people remember. These one-liners will remind you:

1. Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
   
2. Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
3. We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
4. You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.
5. A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
   
6. Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
7. I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
8. Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
9. Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
   
10. You know you’re old if your walker has an airbag.
11. I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’
12. You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.
13. I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
    
14. Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
15. Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.

The essence of Phyllis Diller is in these one-liners.

She was married twice and had six children; this may have provided the basis for some of her material.

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Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in 1790 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of 84.

He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and is sometimes referred to as “the First American” due to his campaigning for colonial unity.

Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents, which could be a reason for his wisdom.

He was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. He invented, among other things, the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove.

He was called “the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.”

As a tribute to his varied life and undoubted abilities in many fields, Franklin has been honored in many ways, His name and likeness have been used on coinage, the $100 bill, warships, many towns, counties, and educational institutions, to name a few.

Browse our LifeDaily selection of the sayings of Benjamin Franklin for a glimpse of his wisdom:

1. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
2. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
3. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
4. Well done is better than well said.
5. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
6. The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
7. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
8. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
9. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
10. Diligence is the mother of good luck.
11. I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
12. Life’s tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
13. Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
14. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
15. When in doubt, don’t.

Perhaps the last quote on our list of Benjamin Franklin sayings is the best illustration of his wisdom.

What do you think Franklin would have thought about what America has become? Turning in his grave, perhaps?

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Joan Rivers was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933, and died in the same city yesterday, September 14, at the age of 81.

She was an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and television host, best known for her stand-up comedy, for co-hosting the E! celebrity fashion show Fashion Police, and for starring in a reality series alongside her daughter, Melissa.

Joan Rivers was renowned for her acerbic wit and biting humor, as exemplified in these quotes.

Rivers first came to prominence in 1965 as a guest on The Tonight Show, hosted by Johnny Carson, Her comic style frequently poked fun at celebrities, but she also joked about herself, particularly her extensive plastic surgery.

Her satirical style of humor, which often focused on the personal lives of celebrities and public figures, was sometimes criticized.

She died on September 4, 2014 following serious complications—including cardiac arrest—during a procedure on her vocal cords at a clinic on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

These quotes of Joan Rivers are her legacy to the world of humor:

1. I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die, they will donate my body to Tupperware.
   
2. I now consider it a good day when I don’t step on my boobs.
3. I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer’s. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.”
4. You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.
   
5. My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I’d scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus — that way, I’d visit him every day.
6. I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
7. People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
8. I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.
9. It was a Jewish porno film… one minute of sex and nine minutes of guilt.
10. I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for ‘Best Special Effects.’
    
11. All my mother told me about sex was that the man goes on top and the woman on the bottom. For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
12. My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it’s missing, and what there is stinks.
13. The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.
14. With age comes wisdom. You don’t need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace.
15. No more Botox for me. Betty White’s bowels move more than my face.
16. Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.
    
17. You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.
18. When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.
19. Half of all marriages end in divorce — and then there are the really unhappy ones.
20. I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life. Peeping Toms look at my window and pull down the shade. My gynecologist examines me by telephone.

Joan Rivers certainly had a unique outlook on life, as these quotes show.

As far as death was concerned, she could also joke about it with this classic one-liner:

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born in 1874 in Woodstock, England, and died in London in 1965 at the age of 90. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, and also served a second term from 1951 to 1955.

Winston Churchill was probably the greatest wartime leader of the 20th century and was known for his inspiring speeches and quotes.

Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, an historian, and a writer. He is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was also the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States – his mother was actually American.

During the 1930′s, Churchill warned about German rearmament. Ironically, he found himself, as Prime Minister, having to contend with the fact that his entreaties had fallen on deaf ears and he was saddled with the result.

Churchill’s oratorical skills are legendary and his speeches and radio broadcasts inspired the British people. He led Britain as Prime Minister until victory over Nazi Germany had been secured.

Notwithstanding the debt of gratitude owed to him for his outstanding leadership during the war, the British electorate, in its wisdom, voted him out of office in the first postwar election also in 1945.

Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history.

One of his most famous speeches at the beginning of the war included these historical words.

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

However, Churchill did have a less serious side to his character and frequently displayed an acerbic wit. He was once accused by a female member of parliament of being drunk.

She is reported to have told him, “Winston, you are drunk, and what’s more you are disgustingly drunk.”

Churchill responded, “Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.”

Browse these Winston Churchill quotes for more of his wit and wisdom:

1. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
   
2. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
3. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
4. Never, never, never give up.
5. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
6. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
7. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
   
8. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
9. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
10. You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
11. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
12. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
    
13. I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
14. Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
15. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Those were some of the the best known quotes from Winston Churchill.

They indicate that his hatred of Naziism was only marginally higher than his hatred of Socialism.

With the passing of the years, western society has been overtaken by a veritable tsunami of political correctness, one element of which is a different perception of war and its rules.

Churchill is now considered by some as nothing less than a war criminal!

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George Bernard Shaw was born in 1856 in Dublin, Ireland and died in London in 1950 aged 94. He was primarily a playwright with a talent for drama and wrote more than 60 plays; he also wrote essays, novels and short stories.

George Bernard Shaw’s observations about life were often concerned with social problems.

Issues which engaged his attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. Shaw was an ardent socialist and wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He hated the exploitation of the working class and spoke out publicly about equal rights for women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. Shaw is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature and an Academy Award for his work on the film Pygmalion. He refused all other awards and honors, including the offer of a knighthood.

Browse these observations of George Bernard Shaw to understand something about the man:

1. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
   
2. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
3. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
4. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
5. Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
6. Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
   
7. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
8. You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’
9. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
10. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
    
11. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
12. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
13. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
14. Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
15. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

What do you think about George Bernard Shaw’s view of life?

A famous anecdote about Shaw concerned an incident in which he asked a woman if she would be willing to sleep with a man for an exorbitant sum of money. She says she would. He then asks her if she would also do it for a token sum. The woman is greatly offended and says “What kind of woman do you think I am?” Shaw is said to have replied “We’ve already established that. Now we’re just haggling over the price.” This story doesn’t quite match Shaw’s declared views about women, so its veracity is disputed. What do you think about his other observations above? Share your thoughts by making use of the comments feed below.

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Scarlett Johansson was born in New York in 1984. She started acting in movies at the age of 10 and came into prominence after her performance in the Robert Redford film The Horse Whisperer when she was 14-years-old.

She transitioned into adult roles with two memorable performance in 2003 in Girl with a Pearl Earring and Sofia Coppola’s much acclaimed Lost in Translation for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She was also nominated for Golden Globe Awards for both films.

So, what does Scarlett Johansson have to say for herself off set?

Actually, not very many profound things.

According to what our LifeDaily team has been able to find, her sayings tend to relate only to her work or herself. This does not mean that she does not think deeply about other issues, but, if she does, she keeps those thoughts to herself.

Johansson is considered one of Hollywood’s modern sex symbols, appearing often in published lists of the sexiest women in the world. In both 2006 and 2013, she was named the “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire magazine and she was also chosen by Playboy magazine in 2007 as the “Sexiest Celebrity.”

Surprisingly, Johansson became famously entangled in a political spat in January 2014, when she resigned from her position as Oxfam ambassador after facing criticism for her promotion of SodaStream, whose main factory is in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Oxfam opposes all trade with Israeli settlements but Johansson said she and Oxfam “have a fundamental difference of opinion in regards to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement”.

These sayings of Scarlett Johansson, however, give no inkling of her political views:

I mean, it’s nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

It’s nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you’re alive, you know?

LA’s a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don’t take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody’s giving each other catty looks.

I don’t go to McDonald’s anymore. After I saw Super Size Me… no way!

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don’t want to be an old hag. There’s no fun in that.

I value my privacy and my personal life – and I certainly don’t exploit my personal life.

I have always… expected a lot from myself.

These tabloid magazines – I think they’re hideous and the downfall of society.

I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn’t have any cellulite then.

I’m not anxious to starve myself. For me, it’s not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.

I’ve always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I don’t do damsel in distress very well. It’s hard for me to play a victim.

I’d rather go to the White House Correspondents’ dinner than any awards show.

I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I’m not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that’s it.

There’s no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn’t exist. That’s a thing of the past.

Do you think Scarlett Johansson comes across as a bit shallow, according to these sayings?

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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts and died in La Jolla, California in 1991 at the age of 87. He was a writer, poet, and cartoonist best known for his children’s books, which he wrote and illustrated under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss.

Our LifeDaily team has chosen some of the best fun sayings of Dr. Seuss for your amusement.

Seuss published a total of 46 children’s books which featured imaginative characters, rhyme, and the frequent use of anapestic meter which is a particular rhythm suited to comic verse. His most-celebrated books include The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Fox in Socks and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! There have been numerous adaptations of his works including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series.

He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for a New York City newspaper. In 1947 he won the Academy Award for a Documentary Feature which he made while working for the United States Army during the Second World war.

He would sometimes spend up to a year on a book as he was such a perfectionist. Sometimes he would reject 95% of his material until he settled on a theme. Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birthday, March 2, has been adopted as National Read Across America Day by the National Education Association.

Browse our selection of some of his sayings to understand why Dr. Seuss was so honored:

1. Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
   
2. Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
3. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
4. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
5. You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
   
6. A person’s a person, no matter how small.
7. I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
8. You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
9. Adults are just outdated children.
   
10. Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
    
11. Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
12. Adults are obsolete children.
13. You make ‘em, I amuse ‘em.
14. I am not a consecutive writer.

So, there you have a small sample of Dr. Seuss sayings.

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