“But officially Mantell had chased the planet Venus, metamorphosed later into a Skyhook balloon, and thus, alas, met his death. ...This Venus idea makes it very hard to understand a sighting at White Sands Rocket Testing Ground, New Mexico, where a flying saucer was tracked by radar, and found to be cantering along at a mere 18,000 m.p.h.”
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“Even in comparison to out sister world [Venus], our home planet is exceptional.”
Naked Earth: the New Geophysics (1995)

Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World (1987)
As quoted in TIME magazine (4 January 1988)
1980s
Variant: Soviet rockets can find Halley's comet and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but . . . many household appliances are of poor quality.

“Venus was a machine for making bad weather.”
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 12 (p. 135)

Diana Cyr, in "Live Young Forever: 12 Steps to Optimum Health, Fitness and Longevity", p. 10

“When they and Venus to his cottage came,
For lust-rewards prefer'd the Cyprian dame.”
Book XXIV; the Judgement of Paris.
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 5, Chapter 23, verse 3, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/5/23/3
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science