Invented Quotes

1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis… — Eddie Izzard
The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an… — Unknown Author
If there were no God, he would have to be invented. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana. — Bobby Knight
Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff… — Patrick deWitt
They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy,… — Gore Vidal
It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only… — Robert Powell
The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to… — Toni Morrison
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in… — Robin G. Collingwood
Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable… — Gore Vidal
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in… — Benjamin Franklin
We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the… — Walter Ciszek
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. — Paddy Ashdown
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image… — Flannery O'Connor
Invented the #hashtag. — Chris Messina
If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball. — Sam Rutigliano
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words. — Richard Branson
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention — Henry David Thoreau
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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