Beryl Markham
There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.Collection: Fun
Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.Collection: Horse
The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.Collection: Loneliness
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Collection: Knowledge
A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.Collection: Men
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.Collection: Stars
Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.Collection: Silence
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.Collection: Dog
For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.Collection: Wind