#invented

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure. ↗

— Julie Christie

#invented #just #marriage #marry #never

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#invented #simply #time #waste #waste time

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#ago #asked #come #course #done

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#between #called #century #difference #dining

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. ↗

— Andrew Young

#diplomacy #invented #once #xerox

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#compass #high #invented #matrimony #sea

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#definition #happiness #health #heard #i

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#disintegrating #education #ever #invented #liberalism

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#here #home #human #human right #invented