Aviation Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aviation Flying Funny Mankind Nature of man Thinking Wells
We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation. — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull, an unlimited idea of freedom,” Jonathan would say in the evenings on… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil. — Don Burr Copy Share Image
