Eli Whitney Quotes: top 14 famous quotes about Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney Quotes & Sayings

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Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ... — Andrew Crofts

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need. — Joe Jamail

All it takes is one to stand where others fall. — Shannon Messenger

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with. — Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor, — Eli Whitney

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare

That translucent alabaster of our memories. — Marcel Proust

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. — Moliere

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected. — Eli Whitney

Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make. — Eli Whitney

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion. — Eli Whitney

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control. — Camryn Manheim

I never thought my cotton gin would change history. — Eli Whitney