It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. Colette
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. Ralph Nader
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence. Sydney Smith
What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted. Olusegun Obasanjo
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it. Saddam Hussein
Derive the oil of a wall. French Proverb