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Invention: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me, I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!— Shakespeare — Othello. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 305.

O monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4. L.591.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!— Shakespeare — Othello. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 293.

Sweet fellowship in shame! One drunkard loves another of the name.— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 48.

What's a drunken man like, fool? Like a drowned man, a fool and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 136.

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.— JEREMY TAYLOR — Holy Living. Of Drunkenness. Ch. II. Pt. 2.

A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.— CYRIL TOURNEUR — The Revenger's Tragedy. Act III. Sc. I.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves -the creature of habits and infirmities.— ISAAC DISRAELI — Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XVI.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.— EMERSON — Letters and Social Aims.

Quotation and Originality. Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.— FULLER — The Holy and Profane States. Bk. III. Of Fancy.

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old régime. And, spite of Lemprière's dazzling page, I'd give though it might seem bold- A hundred years of the Golden Age For a year of the Age of Gold. C.— HENRY S. LEIGH — The Two Ages.

This is a man's invention and his hand.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 29.