Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.
Source: Holding the Baby, Seeing Things at Night, 1921.
-- Heywood C Broun, (Dec 7 1888-1939), US journalist, author; He helped found The Newspaper Guild, 1934, which presents annual reporting awards in his name; noted NYC newsman, 1908-1940.