"If a thing is old, it is a……" — Eddie Rickenbacker

"If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality."

— Eddie Rickenbacker

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36 Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker

Eddie Rickenbacker has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth…
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of…
If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old…
I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit…
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who…
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot…
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get…
I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

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Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we… — Chinua Achebe
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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