Superman don’t need no seat belt. (Comment to flight attendant, who replied, “Superman don’t need no airplane, either.”) (Cassius Clay)
Airplanes Quotes
Airplanes are most effective against morale. They frighten, they exhaust; they break nerves. They do not, usually in fact, kill many men.
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren’t destructable.
One night a jet flew a little bit too close to my house. I was walking from the living room to the kitchen, and the stewardess told me to sit down.
If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead.
Some day my ship will come in, and with my luck I’ll be at the airport.
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to […]
If flying is so safe, why do they call an airport the ‘terminal’?
