If you have explored Google’s G-Mail services little more than just opening it to check new emails and sending replies to your friends, you would have noticed that there is a link on the top right of the page titled “Settings”.

If you click the “Settings Link” you are presented with options to:

1. customize your G-Mail account

2. set-up mail forwarding to another mail box that you use more often than Gmail

3. set-up Gmail in Outlook, Thunderbird, Outlook Express etc.

4. set-up Labels for organizing messages received / sent (similar to folders in Outlook/ Outlook Express)

5. set-up rules for incoming messages

6. set-up Chat within the Gmail and select the options

7. set-up web clips to be shown over the in-box on topics of your choice, and

8. use Labs to activate host of interesting add-on free programs to enhance your email experience.

9. set-up themes for customising the look and feel of the email

This post is about one free program available under Labs (8th feature under settings) called “Random Quotes” which I activated about six months back and thoroughly enjoy using it.

It throws up interesting and funny quotes every time you write a new message.

In spite of the fact that the quote shows up the moment I decide to compose a new message, on some occasions I have found this add-on showing humorous quotes very relevant to the message I wrote.  I have found these quotes very interesting and humorous that I decided to capture some of them for a blog post!

Enjoy reading them.

Rodney Dangerfield – “I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”

Fran Lebowitz – “Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.”

Bob Hope – “You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

Mercedes McCambridge – “I’d never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.”

Casey Stengel – “All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.”

Samuel Goldwyn – “I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.”

Charles de Gaulle – “The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”

Rita Rudner – “In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.”

Phyllis Diller – “If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.”

Mitch Hedberg – “I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.”

Andy Warhol – “I am a deeply superficial person.”

Henny Youngman – “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.”

James Thurber – “Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”

Jay Leno – “Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.”

Bernard Baruch – “Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.”

Charles Kuralt – “You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.”

H. L. Mencken – “It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”

Winston Churchill – “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Albert Einstein – A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Mark Twain – “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”

Vince Lombardi – “We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

Emma Goldman – “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”  (This quote came on 13/5/2009, the date of election in Tamil Nadu as I was writing a mail to my brother!)

Liked it? You can also set-up these funny quotes.  You need Gmail and you need to set-up the Random Quotes option under Settings -> Labs

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