Ingenious Quotes - Page 8

• There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.

  Edward Lear

  Food, Oil, Soup

  Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.133, Wordsworth Editions

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• Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil.  The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us.

  Charles Mackay

  Numbers, Evil, Reason

  Charles MacKay, Peter-Eric Philipp (2000). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.312, Essential Library

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• I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.

  Richard Cumberland

  Wise, Gratitude, Mean

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• Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.

  William Petty

  Numbers, People, Bills

  Sir William Petty (1986). “The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality More Probably by John Graunt”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.

  Damon Albarn

  Perfect, People, Sandwiches

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

  David Quammen

  Plutonium, Evolution, Culmination

  David Quammen (2014). “Monster Of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.17, Random House

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• That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingenious composer should write an opera about a group of people who were condemned by a cruel god to scream all the time; it would be an instantaneous success, and a triumph of versimilitude.

  Robertson Davies

  Writing, People, Seductive

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

  Homer

  Hero, Towns, Muse

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey: Top Classic Collections”, p.10, 谷月社

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• If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.

  Anwar Ibrahim

  Practice, Rights, Champion

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• As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Way, Enough

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1834). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Isaiah to Malachi”, p.328

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• The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

  L. J. Smith

  Girl, Strong, Book

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• Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us

  Paul Davies

  Law, Design, Purpose

  Paul Davies (1985). “Superforce”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Earning It, Effectiveness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.28

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• Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, Kindness, War

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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• When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic.

  John Scalzi

  Reading, Book, Commitment

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• To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Mean, Mind

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Encouragement, Community, Mechanic

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.154

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• The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Design, Purpose

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• Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Human Bondage, Refuge

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.265, Diversion Books

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• Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

  Michael O'Brien

  Effort, Survival, Saws

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• Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

  William C. Bryant

  Mean, Self, Unhappy

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• Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

  Edmund Waller

  Art, War, Age

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.190

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• Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

  Agnes Repplier

  Passion, Writing, Heart

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• Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

  Arthur Balfour

  Law, Heaven, Sublime

  "Foundations of Belief". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.

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