Quotes on Aeroplanes

In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.