Invented

Famous quotes containing the word invented:

    Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman’s business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such—as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association—the going will be hard indeed.
    Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

    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 (1821–1880)

    Warren G. Harding invented the word “normalcy,”
    And the lesser-known “bloviate,” meaning, one imagines,
    To spout, to spew aimless verbiage.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)