Quotes 21 till 40 of 82.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.
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I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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I wouldn't say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, ''Candle making industry threatened''.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
Source: In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000) -
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
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Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!
Source: Polite Conversation (1738)
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