Famous quotes containing the word invented:
“Say what you will, making marriage work is a womans business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as suchas a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal associationthe going will be hard indeed.”
—Phyllis McGinley (19051978)
“I invented the colors of the vowels!A black, E white, I red, O blue, U greenI made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (18541891)
“Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; thats the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)