Quotes 61 till 80 of 82.
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed.
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Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
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Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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The true success is the person who invented himself.
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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
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This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
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Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
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Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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