Quotes
| “ | If anybody ever tells you anything about an aeroplane which is so bloody complicated you can't understand it, take it from me: it's all balls. | ” |
| — R. J. Mitchell, advice given about his engineering staff to test pilot Jeffrey Quill during prototype trials. |
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“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)