Getting caught is the mother of invention.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."

Prejudices save time.

Partying is such sweet sorrow.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

To err is human, to purr feline.

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.