Quotes on people's favored modes of transportation
shen
quotations made on all types of people's preferred mode/s of
transportation
(car, bicycle, motorbike, plane, train, etc).
Daniel P. B. Smith
she...@hotmail.com (shen) wrote:
Horse-drawn coach, of course:
The coachman now informed them their time was elapsed; nor could
all the pathetic remonstrances of the reverend divine, who declared
he had not half breakfasted, succeed in gaining one minute from the
inexorable Jehu.
"You will allow," said Mr Foster, as soon as they were again in
motion, "that the wild man of the woods could not transport himself
over two hundred miles of forest, with as much facility as one of
these vehicles transports you and me through the heart of this
cultivated country."
"I am certain," said Mr Escot, "that a wild man can travel an
immense distance without fatigue; but what is the advantage of
locomotion? The wild man is happy in one spot, and there he
remains: the civilised man is wretched in every place he happens to
be in, and then congratulates himself on being accommodated with a
machine that will whirl him to another, where he will be just as
miserable as ever."
We shall now leave the mail-coach to find its way to Capel Cerig,
the nearest point of the Holyhead road to the dwelling of Squire
Headlong.
--T. L. Peacock, _Headlong Hall_
Preferably comfortable and well-sprung:
Don Luis had been engaged for some time in working out a mate in
five moves with the governor of the town who was a devotee of
chess. He had also completed sundry alterations both in the body
and in the chassis of the coach which were not without a certain
sinister significance. The body was painted a dull black, the
lilies of monseigneur were removed from the door and a blank
escutcheon substituted. Heavier axles and wheels with larger hubs
were prepared. The sling straps were removed, the springs
reinforced, and the body of the vehicle hung from chains. Save
that there were no barred gratings at the windows, from the outside
the coach now resembled nothing so much as one of those vehicles in
which the unfortunate objects of a lettre de cachet were
transported from fortress to fortress. No one would have
recognized it for the graceful equipage which had left Versailles
in May....
The exact state of "circumstances" which Don Luis thus hoped as he
told himself "to achieve" had, however, not come about. Although
he had indeed weighed his fist heavily in the scale, an unexpected
strength in the powers of nature implicit in the endurance of his
wife had prevented him. Without imitating Nero he could not get
rid of that which he hated and retain what he desired. It was now
nearly the end of December. He must be in Italy early in the new
year. An occasional scream from Maria which she could no longer
forbear and the indignation of Lucia that fear no longer entirely
controlled were also annoying him.
--Hervey Allen, _Anthony Adverse_
raffer
"shen" wrote:
The automobile changed our dress,manners, social customs, vacation habits,
the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and
positions in intercourse.
John Ketas, The Insolent Chariots.
Ob Quote:
There are two classes of travel-first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley
--
raffer
Ed Kranz
> > quotations made on all types of people's preferred mode/s of
> > transportation
> > (car, bicycle, motorbike, plane, train, etc).
"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of
novelists and poets."
- Christopher Morley
Ed Kranz
Ed Kranz
> > Can any readers offer eloquent, articulate (preferably 20th century)
> > quotations made on all types of people's preferred mode/s of
> > transportation
> > (car, bicycle, motorbike, plane, train, etc).
"Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior
category of people." - Chip Brown
Ed Kranz
Ed Kranz
>
> > Can any readers offer eloquent, articulate (preferably 20th century)
> > quotations made on all types of people's preferred mode/s of
> > transportation
> > (car, bicycle, motorbike, plane, train, etc).
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart.
-- Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
Ed Kranz aka fasteddie
Ed Kranz
> > Can any readers offer eloquent, articulate (preferably 20th century)
> > quotations made on all types of people's preferred mode/s of
> > transportation
> > (car, bicycle, motorbike, plane, train, etc).
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery
of life.
--Frances E. Willard, _How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
Ed Kranz
SteveMR200
The best, the most exquisite automobile is a
walking stick; and one of the finest things in
life is going on a journey with it.
--Robert Coates Holliday, _Walking-Stick Papers_
--
Steve
Joe Fineman
> "I'd rather see my sister in a whorehouse than my brother on a Jap
> bike."
>
> -- Harley-Davidson rider's motto
Aliter:
Riding a riceburner is like gay sex: it's kind of fun, but you don't
want you bros to see you doing it.
--
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Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz,
The professor warms to the broker,
And life is good in the brotherhood
Of an air-conditioned smoker. -- Ogden Nash
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The Sanity Inspector
them is the Porsche 911 Cabriolet.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam
David McKay
John in a taxi
George in a car
Paul on a bicycle
Licking an icicle
Following Ringo Starr.
--
David McKay
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