(374 quotes found)
“Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard”
Spike Milligan
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
Gustave Flaubert
“The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.”
Ralph W. Sockman
“As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”
Calvin Trillin
“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.”
David Frost
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I invented the cordless extension cord.”
Stephen Wright
“Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”
The Princess Bride
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
Coco Chanel
“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!”
Ingrid Bergman
