Twenty-Five Random Quotes. This is an additional resource. It contains 25 quotes chosen at random from our data base. Some are humorous some are amusing while many are serous and educational. You can submit quotes for consecration along with your questions.
The Business of America is Business. - Calvin Coolidge
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. - Leonardo da Vinci
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. - Nikolai Gogol
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. - Edmund Hillary
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. - Francis Bacon
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. - Vincent Van Gogh
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. - Ayn Rand
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. - Bill Gates
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. -Ernest Shackleton
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Ray Bradbury
Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't – Margret Thatcher
I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes. - Jack Handey
No one ever went bankrupt betting on the stupidity of the American Consumer. – Ben Bernanke
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet. - Temple Grandin
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true. – Homer Simpson
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. - Emily Dickinson
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. - Ayn Rand
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T Washington
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted. - Napolean Bonaparte
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. – Henry Ford
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. - Napolean Bonaparte
Would it really be worth living in a world without television? I think the survivors would envy the dead. - Krusty The Clown
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. - J K Rowling
Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.- Homer Simpson
