Mother Drain

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or drain:

“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man’s soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)