Famous quotes containing the words engine and/or lid:
“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)