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67 quotesPainting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Painters and Painting
Hamerton
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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
Marriage
Heinrich Heine
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Modesty
Joseph Joubert
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We can invent only with memory.
Invention and Inventor
Alphonse Karr
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Government
Murray Kempton
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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Humor
Latin Proverb
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
Heaven
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Language is the inventory of human experience.
Language
L. W. Lockhart
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
Medicine
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
Science and Scientists
Don Marquis
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.
Invention and Inventor
Andre Maurois
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Popularity
Bette Midler
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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
Confusion
Henry Miller
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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Honesty
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Fashion
Christopher Morley
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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
Television
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Parents and Parenting
Ogden Nash
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We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
Language
Mal Pancoast
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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
Marriage
Francis Picabia
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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Work
Pablo Picasso
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Government
Ronald Reagan
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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
Discontent
David Rockerfeller
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Originality
Auguste Rodin
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Obstacles
Barbara Sher
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Taste
Dame Edith Sitwell
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun