Great Aviation Quotes

• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  Mark Russell

  Inspirational, Hilarious, Funny Life

  "Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

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• If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Witty, Revenge

  Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow

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• Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

  Socrates

  Airplane, Men, Flying

  Quoted in Brugioni, From Balloons to Blackbirds (1993).

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

  Thomas Szasz

  Revenge, Mistake, Inspiration

  The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"

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• Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

  Adam Savage

  Law, Ideas, Pilots

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• Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Track, Aviation

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• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  Chuck Yeager

  Airplane, Flying, Dying

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

  Lauren Graham

  Aviation, Collaborators

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• The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Faith, Airplane

  "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

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• If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

  Chuck Yeager

  Want, Pilots, Aviation

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• Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Clouds, Sea

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. I), 1939.

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  The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Clouds, Flying High

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4707, Delphi Classics

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• And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.

  Elrey Borge Jeppesen

  Artist, Differences, Pilots

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• The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

  Michael Badnarik

  Law, Ideas, Liberty

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• Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.

  William K. Kershner

  Earth, Aviation, Thee

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• In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

  Amelia Earhart

  Pilots, Aviation, Flight

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Motivational, Humorous

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• If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Travel, Airplane

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• Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Airplane, Men, Sea

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Science

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• The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Events, Different

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• I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Stars, Wind, Might

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