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Invented Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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…
- Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in…
- They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever…
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
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- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! — Ingrid Bergman
- I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' — Jeff Bezos
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
- I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat,… — Elayne Boosler
- I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. — David Bowie
- Truth exists; only lies are invented. — Georges Braque
- I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it. — Sarah Brightman
- The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. — Alton Brown
- The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. — Sid Caesar