“Maidens hearts are always soft:
Would that men's were truer!”
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
Song: Dost Thou Idly Ask To Hear http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page62, st. 1 (1832)
“If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.”
— Jack Vance, book The Dragon Masters
Section 7
The Dragon Masters (1962)
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“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
Voltaire Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs
Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. <br class="br">Variant translation: If there was no God, It would be necessary to invent him. <br class="br">Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs (10 November 1770) <br class="br">For the background of the quote see this source: Yeh, Anthony (July 3, 2011). "What did Voltaire mean when he said that "if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"?" http://archive.is/Rt53S. Quora. Archived from the original https://www.quora.com/What-did-Voltaire-mean-when-he-said-that-if-God-did-not-exist-it-would-be-necessary-to-invent-him on October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2017. <br class="br">Citas
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Charles Lyell book Principles of Geology
Chpt.3, p. 34
Principles of Geology (1832), Vol. 1
Context: It may be well to forewarn our readers that in tracing the history of geology from the close of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century they must expect to be occupied with accounts of the retardation as well as of the advance of the science.... It will be necessary to dwell on futile reasoning and visionary hypothesis because the most extravagant systems were often invented or controverted by men of acknowledged talent.
“That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
Reportedly to Alexander Graham Bell after a demonstration of the telephone, as quoted in Future Mind : The Microcomputer-New Medium, New Mental Environment (1982) by Edward J. Lias, p. 2 but author did not footnote or in any other way cite a source for the quotation, and the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center has found no primary-source evidence that Rutherford B. Hayes made the comment. The same article erroneously states that President Hayes had his first experience with the telephone in 1876 in a "trial conversation between Washington and Philadephia." Rutherford B. Hayes was president of the United States in the years 1877-1881. His well documented experience with the telephone occurred in 1877 while Hayes was in Rhode Island. Prior to becomng disputed here, this statement was treated as probably spurious in "Obama’s whopper about Rutherford B. Hayes and the telephone" in the Washington Post (16 March 2012) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-whopper-about-rutherford-b-hayes-and-the-telephone/2012/03/15/gIQAel6SFS_blog.html?wprss=fact-checker, which asserts Hayes installed a phone only months later, and that the Providence Journal (29 June 1877) reported his words during the demonstration as "That is wonderful!" <br class="br">Disputed
“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
“Necessary is often the mother of light fingers instead of invention.”
Michael Bishop book No Enemy But Time
Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 10 “Fruit of the Looms” (p. 76)
John Campbell Shairp (1819–1885) British writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 156.