Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer.
—Indian Proverb
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.
—Unknown
Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
—Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator
Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.
—Unknown
I don’t like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.
—Whoopi Goldberg (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Musician, Political Activist, TV Personality
A commuter tie-up consists of you – and people who for some reason won’t use public transit.
—Robert Brault
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
—Unknown
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
—Robert Brault
A city that outdistances man’s walking powers is a trap for man.
—Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) British Historian
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
—Indian Proverb
Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
—Indian Proverb
If a woman driver ahead of you signals a left turn, be careful, she may turn left.
—Unknown
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian
Society undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet; he has a fine Geneva watch, but cannot tell the hour by the sun.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
—Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
—U.S. Proverb
A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.
—James Thurber
The greater part of my official time is spent on investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn, and each stationary.
—Unknown
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
—H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English Novelist, Historian, Social Thinker
I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
—Unknown
And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system.
—Robert Brault
If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.
—Indian Proverb
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
—Indian Proverb
I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian…. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they’ll get me someday.
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
—Burton Hillis (William E. Vaughan) (1915–77) American Columnist, Author
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
—Doug Larson (1926–2017) American Columnist
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
—E. B. White (1985–99) American Essayist, Humorist
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