What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America…

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if…

— Roald Dahl

“When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture in the…

— Pierre Boulle

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that…

— Jon Stewart

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put…

— Ogden Nash

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John…

— Graydon Carter

“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it. Take my word…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of…

— Susanna Kaysen

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events…

— Umberto Eco

“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of…

— Susanna Kaysen

In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques…

— Clive James

But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief,…

— Bill Bryson

“called Forest Park—and it was a forest, probably not much different in appearance from what it was when Columbus discovered America. I frequently walked…

— Dale Carnegie

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

— Edith Wharton