Able Quote by Simon Newcomb

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

— Simon Newcomb

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of…

— Simon Newcomb

Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going,…

— Jerry Seinfeld

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other…

— Marcus Aurelius

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

— Douglas Adams

You can't fly if you never try.

— Jackie Kisa

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination.

— Raymonde de Laroche

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

— Henry David Thoreau

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't…

— Andrew Shue

Pilots are tricky because there are so many things you have to accomplish.

— Hiro Murai