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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift

Fool, Wonder, Kissing

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
Thomas Huxley

Thought, Agnostic, Took

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
Lech Walesa

Lazy, Walking, Bicycle

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
Boris Johnson

Play, Between, Rest

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Simone Weil

Life, God, Perfect

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Sid Caesar

Idiot, Genius, Three

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
Jonathan Davis

Change, Quite, Simply

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
Dan Quayle

Internet, Check, Spell

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.
Chris Rock

School, White, Stolen

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
Paul Cezanne

Method, Primitive

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nature, Her, She

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Around, Wait, Until

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Someone, Possible

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Jerry Saltz

Greatest, Human, Imagine

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
Temple Grandin

Engineer, Pilot, Automatic

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
Gustave Flaubert

Tired, Greatest, Others

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Edward Everett Hale

Name, Known, Survival

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Paul Erdos

Education, American, Television

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse

Hair, Cure, Gray

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.
Lee Iacocca

Days, Guess, Sell

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.
Tom Hiddleston

Reason, Playing, Whether

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
Newt Gingrich

Freedom, Beginning, Beach

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
Ralph Nader

God, Eat, Meant

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Boothe Luce

Women, Men, Talk

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell

Music, Loneliness, Human

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Home, Wife, Days

Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
Thomas Frank

Great, Live, May

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash

Happy, Children, Parents

Accursed be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe

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