Bicycles, sporting a frame today that is not far removed from that of the late 1800s, have been an important part of society for well over a century for both its usefulness and its ability to boost the spirit, as the following bicycle quotes will attest:
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions
that you will never forget. -
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| 1886 Swift Safety Bicycle (Source: Wikimedia Commons) |
Mario Cipollini
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country
best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember
them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you,
and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as
you gain by riding a bicycle. -Ernest Hemingway
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike
ride. -John F. Kennedy
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer
despair for the future of the human race. -H.G. Wells
As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle.
When I got the 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
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. -Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle, Scientific American, 1896
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my 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.
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country
best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember
them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you,
and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as
you gain by riding a bicycle. -Ernest Hemingway
Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of
humanity. -Lord Charles Beresford
Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears
we never use. -Charles M. Schulz
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. -H.G. Wells
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep
your balance you must keep moving. -Albert Einstein,
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness
and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy. -Leo
Tolstoy, in defence when criticised for learning to ride a bicycle, aged 67.
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, Nobel Laureate and author of The lord of the
flies.
After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A
memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they
seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change
and grow. -H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance
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
I
finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a
wobbling wheel. -Frances E. Willard
The
bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and
shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire
community. -Ann Strong, Minneapolis
Tribune, 1895.
The
bicycle, the bicycle, surely should always be the vehicle of novelists and
poets. -Christopher Morely Nobel prize winner
If
I can bicycle, I bicycle. -David Attenborough
