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1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago — Arne Jacobsen
I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better… — Wendell Berry
Romantic love was invented to manipulate women — Jenny Holzer
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage. — Francis Picabia
Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be… — Andrea Jung
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer… — Janet Flanner
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to… — Janet Flanner
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things — Douglas Adams
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his… — Henry Adams
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved… — Thomas Paine
If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself. — Arthur C. Clarke
Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously. — Arthur C. Clarke
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected. — Viktor E. Frankl
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In… — Horace
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. — Ivan Turgenev
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented — Willem de Kooning
I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old… — Bobby Fischer
There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
I invented the historical spy novel. — Alan Furst
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike
That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where… — Wes Anderson
I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without… — Guillaume Apollinaire

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