How Fast Were They Going?

Unsafe at any speed. - Ralph Nader

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! - David Farragut

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

Chop your own path. Get off the car track. - A.Y. Jackson

The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome. - Unknown

Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. - Homer

Substance is not enough, accident is also required. - Greek Proverb

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. - Unknown

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. - Lauren Bacall

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz

Feminism is a wonderful idea until the car goes wrong. - Nicola Zweig

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. - Unknown

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on. - Budd Schulberg

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park his bike. - Spiro T. Agnew

To attract men, I wear a perfume called "New Car Interior". - Rita Rudner

It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed. - Unknown

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. - Carrie Snow

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. - Robert M. Pirsig

Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. - Unknown

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. - J.J. Walsh

Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 150. - Unknown

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

Catching a yellow-jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary. - Unknown

Once you're a mom, you're always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget. - Taraji P Henson

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter DeVries

The lead car is absolutely, truly unique, except for the one behind it which is exactly identical. - Murray Walker

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. - Erma Bombeck

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. - Sting

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. - Emo Philips

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder. - Tom Hodgkinson

Do you think you're safe in a car with your seatbelt on? Dream on. My friend thought so. Now she's pregnant. - Anke Engelke

For all of the fights I have had in my life, both on and off the ice, I have only been in the back of a cop car once. - Tie Domi

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

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push. - Summer Sanders

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. - Erma Bombeck

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic. - Joe Scarborough

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did, in his sleep. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. - Unknown

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, "I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out." - Steven Wright

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt