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It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

A gift by women, for women.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

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.

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.

Into the world of romance, of make-belief and double brandies!

So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

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

Men' s souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong tgem, God is well acquainted with what ye do.

When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men.

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback.

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

I never was in such a horrid office ... It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

Without work men are utterly undone.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

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

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

All those cities, all those fields and farms, with nobody, and nothing left alive. Just nothing there. I simply can't take it in.

You felt to look at him that he would be wonderful upon a horse. I