Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr Famous Quotes
"This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life."
What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die
"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
"To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission."
"It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time."
"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."
"Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die"
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr Quotations
"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
George Burns
"Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."
Dorothy L Sayers
"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."
Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
"Tommy Did you hear I graduated Richard Yeah and just a shade under a decade. All right. Tommy You know a lot of people go to college for seven years. Richard I know, they're called doctors."
Tommy Boy
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Sren Kierkegaard