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| Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. ~ Mary Ellen Kelly |
| Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. ~ Mac McCleary |
| A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~ Peter De Vries |
| The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road. ~ Author Unknown |
| The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. ~ Dudley Moore |
| A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank. ~ Author Unknown |
| Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer. ~ Author Unknown |
| It wasn’t the Exxon Valdez captain’s driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. ~ Greenpeace advertisement, |
| Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. ~ H.G. Wells |
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| Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! ~ Dr. Paul MacCready |
| A city that outdistances man’s walking powers is a trap for man. ~ Arnold Toynbee |
| Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~ Albert Einstein |
| I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~ Author Unknown |
| Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car. ~ Author Unknown |
| A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~ American Proverb |
| Americans are broad-minded people. They’ll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn’t drive, there is something wrong with him. ~ Art Buchwald, "How Un-American Can You Get?," |
Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~ Alan M. Eddison |
| Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. ~ Author Unknown |
| When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot. ~ Larry Lujack |
| The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ~ Marshall McLuhan, |
| Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. ~ Author Unknown |
| The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers. ~ Dave Barry |
| The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. ~ Edward Abbey |
| Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. ~ Lewis Mumford |
| I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I’m gone. ~ Steven Wright |
| The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond. ~ Edward McDonagh |
| A commuter tie-up consists of you – and people who for some reason won’t use public transit. ~ Robert Brault |
| You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. ~ Author Unknown |
| Consider the man on horseback, and I have been a man on horseback for most of my life. Well, mostly he is a good man, but there is a change in him as soon as he mounts. Every man on horseback is an arrogant man, however gentle he may be on foot. The man in the automobile is one thousand times as dangerous. I tell you, it will engender absolute selfishness in mankind if the driving of automobiles becomes common. It will breed violence on a scale never seen before. It will mark the end of the family as we know it, the three or four generations living happily in one home. It will destroy the sense of neighborhood and the true sense of Nation. It will create giantized cankers of cities, false opulence of suburbs, ruinized countryside, and unhealthy conglomerations of specialized farming and manufacturing. It will make every man a tyrant. ~ R.A. Lafferty, "Interurban Queen," 1970, a short story set in the late 1800s |