Plautus Quotes

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Flight without feathers is not easy.

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.

I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.

You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man.

According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven't got a golden handcuff.

It's never been done doesn't mean it can't be done.

Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you.

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.