(374 quotes found)
“The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, HE was a genius.”
Sid Caesar
“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.”
Federico Fellini
“I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.”
Lefty Gomez
“The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.”
Emil Nolde
“An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?”
Rutherford B. Hayes
“What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”
Henrik Ibsen
“Doubt is the father of invention.”
Galileo Galilei
“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.”
Samuel Smiles
“Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them”
Charles Caleb Colton
