More Cool Bicycle Quotes

“The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.” ~ William G. Golding (English Novelist and Poet. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983.)

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. ~ H.G. Wells

I thought of that while riding my bicycle. ~ Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike. ~ John F. Kennedy

As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got he bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.~ John Lennon

"The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world." ~ Susan B. Anthony 1896

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.~ Lance Armstrong after his third Tour de France victory

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires.~ Leon Trotsky

Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on m y tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing. ~ Helen Keller

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym. ~ Bill Nye the Science Guy

Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government.~ Advocacy slogan in Holland

A bicycle does get you there and more … And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~ Bill Emerson

More Cool Adventure Quotes

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

And Shakespeare says, "Yes, I quite agree. It was very painful [King Lear's humiliation], and I could have arranged for him to take a sedative at the end of Act I, but then, ma'am, there would have been no play." ~ Malcom Muggeridge

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~ Anonymous

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose to his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. ~ Ayn Rand

It is a common saying that a man needs only six feet of earth. But six feet is what a corpse needs, not a man.... Man needs not six feet of earth, not a farm, but the whole globe, all of nature, where unhindered he can display all the capacities and peculiarities of his free spirit . ~ Anton Chekhov "Gooseberries" 1898

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." ~ Joseph Campbell, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces"

One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. ~ Henry David Thoreau, US essayist, poet, and naturalist

The greatest successes have always been built by spectacular and often repeated failure. ~ Wade Zawalski

I want to know if you can live with failure... and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the edge of the silver of the full moon, "Yes!" ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer, "The Invitation"