- Birds of a color fly to the same place.~ Welsh Proverb
- Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
- Don’t try to fly before you have wings.~ French Proverb
- Even an eagle will not fly higher than the sun.~ Russian Proverb
- Falling hurts least those who fly low.~ Chinese Proverb
- Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. ~ James Dickey
- Flying birds have no master.~ French Proverb
- Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.~ Douglas Adams
- Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. ~Titus Maccius Plautus
- God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well.~ Turkish Proverb
- In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours – one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. ~ Neil McElroy
- I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I’m just soul on a sunbeam. ~ Richard Bach
- I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport…. ~Amy Johnson
- Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.~ James Thurber
- No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.~ Danish Proverb
- No need to teach an eagle to fly.~ Greek Proverb
- Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.~ Golda Meir
- The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be? – it is the same the angels breathe. ~ Mark Twain
- The butterfly who settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it.~ Armenian Proverb
- The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche. ~ Cesar Pelli
- The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. ~ Walter Raleigh
- The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~ G.K. Chesterton
- The roast duck can fly no more.~ Chinese Proverb
- There is no flying without wings.~ French Proverb
- They quarrel about an egg and let the hen fly.~ German Proverb
- To fall is not painful for those who fly low.~ Chinese Proverb
- True courage consists not in flying from the storms of life, but in braving and steering through them with prudence.~ Hannah Webster Faster
- Words have no wings but they can fly many thousands of miles.~ Korean Proverb
- When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.~ Traditional Proverb
- Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- Why fly? Simple. I’m not happy unless there’s some room between me and the ground. ~ Richard Bach
- You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.~ Chinese Proverb
- You cannot fly with wings made of butter.~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb
- You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky. ~Amelia Earhart
