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Ten Random Quotes

"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
Niccolo Machiavelli

"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
Edward Gibbon

"Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around."
Cole Porter

"I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache."
Lewis Carroll

"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint"
Don Marquis

"I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer."
Laura Linney

"No nice men are good at getting taxis."
Katherine Whitehorn

"The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed."
Byron R. White

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William A. Ward

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