(345 quotes found)
“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”
Dave Barry
“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
Andre Maurois
“If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.”
Dan Quayle
“They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”
Christopher Morley
“What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth”
Yiddish Proverb
“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
“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've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.”
Lefty Gomez