Car Quotes - Sayings about Automobiles
Quotes about Automobiles, Traffic, Carpooling, Vehicles, Autos, Transportation, Traffic Problems
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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, "Self-Reliance," 1841
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
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, New York Times, 25 February 1990
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells
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, Jr.
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
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, Understanding Media
Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. ~Author Unknown
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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, www.robertbrault.com
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. ~Author Unknown
Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared. ~Robbins B. Stoeckel
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ~Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. ~Lewis Mumford
The shortest distance between two points is under construction. ~Noelie Altito
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window. ~Grey Livingston
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ~Bill Vaughan
Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work. ~Author Unknown
If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane. ~Author Unknown
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. ~An English Lord Chief Justice, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy
Life is too short for traffic. ~Dan Bellack
Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. ~Charles M. Allen
The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. ~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964
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Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. ~Jim Samuels
Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles M. Hayes
I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. ~Author Unknown
You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe. ~Edward Abbey
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