Quotes
Quotes about Invention
Doubt is the father of invention.
A weak Invention of the Enemy.
Exasperation is the mother of invention.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
I don't think necessity is the mother of inventionâinvention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
It is not true, it is a happy invention. [It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]
Want, the mistress of invention.
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.
She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
