I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard Shaw
68 quotes about invented follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.
Douglas Adams
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
Bertrand Russell
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
Whitehall behaves as if the computer had never been invented.
Stephen Joseph
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Booth Luce
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, HE was a genius.
Sid Caesar
As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin
Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.
Henry Chadwick
I want to see the artificial intelligence lab, too, but just seeing anything of the things that have been invented there would be great.
Rachel Smith
Rudolph Diesel, the German who invented the diesel fuel process, experimented with peanut oil fuel. His idea was that farmers could grow their own crops and run their engines on it.
Andrew Klenert
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman
If you're on a farm, feces and other things have a risk of getting into the milk and causing contamination. That's why pasteurization was invented _ to get rid of harmful bacteria.
Fergus Clydesdale
The baby boomers believe that they invented sex. And they still think so.
Steve Slon
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
Federico Fellini
Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
Thelma Ritter
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.
Bern Williams
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.
Eric Hoffer
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell
Croatia is a small country up against a giant country that invented soccer and is one of the best in the game, only we believe in our strengths and our chances of winning.
Otto Baric
Xerox Corporation is the world's leading expert on the copying process -- after all, we invented it.
Bill Mckee
This is the latest invention that you have invented.
Christian Vieri
Marconi invented the radio and that is ... the reason we are here today.
Carl henric Svanberg
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Will Cuppy
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.
Spike Milligan
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
Augusto Roa Bastos
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Jerry Falwell
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Something is being invented at Microsoft right now that competes with everything you guys are thinking of right now. You have to be able to work with that.
John Powers
No splints yet invented will heal a lawyer's broken reputation.
Paul O'neil
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
That's why the good Lord invented the Internet.
Harry Shearer
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Don DeLillo
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
Andrew Young
The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
Robert Maxwell
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe
This is a global industry we invented. We should be proud of it. We shouldn't disown it.
Jerry Herron
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent
Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture?
John Mccarthy
The winning names were not even remotely names I would have chosen or invented.
Michael Chabon
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Georges Braque
Victor invented me, in a way. He gave me a desk and a sponsor and a place to hang my hat, which was what I needed.
Christopher Hitchens
We've invented a better mousetrap. This is a new way to capture the higher growth rate of developing countries.
Robert Lovelace
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
Will Rogers
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
John Steinbeck
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Henry Miller
We are not re-inventing anything that has already been invented.
Mary Robinson
Nobel invented dynamite. I won't accept his blood money.
Dr. Gregory House
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
Arthur Hailey
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.
Janet Flanner
The words in the English language have not been invented yet. Those two have the biggest backs, because there were games they just carried us.
Jim Dornan
This sort of technology has been around pretty much since guns were first invented.
Terry Gander
I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.
Sarah Brightman
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren
Copyright © 2024 Electric Goat Media. All Rights Reserved.