"...which are only to be obtained through intercourse…"[pause, thunder] "Forgive me…through the intercourse of friendship or civility."
— Mr. Collins (Tom Hollander), Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
--Elbert Hubbard
The reason one wears a wedding ring on the third finger is that (tradition says) there is supposed to be a vein which goes directly from that finger to the heart—i.e., the seat of love. Also, not everyone wears that wedding ring on the third finger of the LEFT hand. In some traditions, such as the Jewish one, it is worn on the right hand. Also, I'm given to understand that nuns ("brides of Christ") wear a wedding ring, again on the right hand.
To prevent evil spirits from entering the bodies of their male children, parents dressed them in blue. Blue was chosen because it's the color of the sky and was therefore associated with heavenly spirits.
Girls weren't dressed in blue, apparently because people didn't think that evil spirits would bother with them. Eventually, however, girls did get their own color: pink. Pink was chosen because of an old English legend which said that girls were born inside of pink roses.
The famous Citgo sign near Fenway Park in Boston is maintained not by Citgo, but by Boston's historical society.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
George C Lichtenberg
TRIVIA
What mythological monster was said to be produced when a chicken egg was hatched under a toad or a serpent?
