Top 18 Henry Allingham Quotes
#1. Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
John Buchanan Robinson
#2. When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They'd only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.
Henry Allingham
#3. When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The 'unsinkable' ship - but it had gone down so simple.
Henry Allingham
#4. Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.
Henry Allingham
#5. Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti
Truth is one though the sages know it as many
Amish Tripathi
#6. I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.
Henry Allingham
#7. Winning is not only about strengthening yourself; it's also about weakening the enemy.
Ashwin Sanghi
#8. If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.
Will Self
#10. The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
Terence McKenna
#11. I've only ever kissed one girl: my Dorothy. We met in 1915 and married in 1918. She died in 1970.
Henry Allingham
#12. How have I lived so long? I never worried. In the '20s, there were millions of men out of work. You couldn't get a job anywhere. I wasn't worried.
Henry Allingham
#13. Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.
Henry Allingham
#14. It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.
Lynne Truss
#15. Inner Knowledge
You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
Idries Shah
#16. Miracles are out there somewhere. You just got to find them.
Tom Spanbauer
#17. War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.
Henry Allingham
#18. I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.
Henry Allingham
