Quotes 24 Mar 18

Science has nothing to do with Christ. For myself I do not believe that there ever has been any revelation. - Charles Darwin Victorian Mythmaker,  A N Wilson page 320

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the
perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
     --Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
      _Doctor Thorne_ [1858], Chapter 47

If we had no Winter, the Spring would not be so pleasant;
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity
would not be so welcomed.
     --Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
      _Meditations Divine and Moral_ [1664]

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
     --Orson Welles (1915-1985)
      _The Times_ [May 6, 1985]

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
     --Erica Jong (1942-    )
      (In Tracy Quinn's _Quotable Women of the
       Twentieth Century_ [1999], "Belief")