Famous quotes containing the word invented:
“An Illinois woman has invented a portable house which can be carried about in a cart or expressed to the seashore. It has also folding furniture and a complete camping outfit.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (18421903)
“Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“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)
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