Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

Without work men are utterly undone

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.