Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Sydney Smith

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone

Doubt is the father of invention.
Ambrose Bierce

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de Lenclos

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
David Horowitz

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Robert Byrne

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
Mark Kelly

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
David Hilbert

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
Dean Kamen

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.
Alex Chiu

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.
Henry Bessemer

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
Joel Coen

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
Robert Moog

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
Norman MacCaig

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
Michael Graves

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
Ben Kingsley

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
Ray Kurzweil