Quotes and Conundrums


"Americans will always do the right thing - after they've tried everything else first."

Winston Churchill


"There is no such thing as safety ... in a world ruled by the principles of gangsterism."

Franklin D. Roosevelt


"The secrets of flight will not be mastered in our lifetimes, not within a thousand years."

Wilber Wright, 1901 - two years before his historic first flight


"Once you fly, you will walk with your eyes skyward. For there you have been and there you will go again."

Leonardo da Vinci


"Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter, open up a vein, and bleed it out drop by drop."

Red Smith


"I know the glass is half full - I just want to know who's been drinking out of it, and do I have to pay full price."

Bob Zany


"They call television a medium because nothing on it is ever well done."

Fred Allen



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