Columbus Quote by Ira Gershwin Download Open image “They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.” — Ira Gershwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christopher Columbus Columbus Laughed Opinion Public opinion Rounds Said World
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“Columbus was born around 1492. I say around because before that the world was flat. My stomach also used to be flat, but now… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin',… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
“But, tell me, is it worth the while To decorate this earth the while The men are so unworthy of our zeal? No more… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more? — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children. — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt,… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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