OIL QUOTES III

quotations about oil

Oil quote

Pardon me, ye that give the midnight oil,
To learned cares, or philosophic toil.

WILLIAM COWPER

"Retirement"

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Oil companies are nationalities. This plane oughta say EXXON on the side instead of U. S. Navy.

JAMES W. BLINN

The Aardvark Is Ready For War


Oil creates the illusion of a completely changed life, life without work, life for free. Oil is a resource that anaesthetises thought, blurs vision, corrupts.

RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI

Shah of Shahs


There is earth below your earth, a deep room where
gas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow blood
through a body.

MATHEW HENDERSON

The Lease


Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.

WILLIAM TAMMEUS

The Globe and Mail, 1991


Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Florence of Arabia