Invent
To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.
To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.
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Invent Quotations
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald Reagan
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
Invent Translations
invent in Afrikaans is uitvind
invent in Danish is opfinde
invent in Dutch is uitdenken, bekokstoven, bedenken
invent in French is inventer, inventons, inventez, inventent
invent in German is ausdenken, erfinden, erfinden
invent in Italian is inventare
invent in Latin is extundo, reperio, reperio
invent in Norwegian is oppfinne
invent in Portuguese is invente
invent in Spanish is inventar
invent in Swedish is uppfinna, dikta
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