Avec mon p'tit vélo, j'avais l'air d'un con. (Georges Brassens)
Parece que no es nada una bicicleta … (Max Aub)
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle … (Freddie Mercury)
gratifying
- When I see an adult
on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
(Herbert George
Wells) English
author (1866-1946)
- On a bicycle you
always have a seat. (Andrea
Gaddini) author
of this website (1961-)
- The bicycle embodies
the myth of free man. (Aligi
Sassu) Italian
painter and sculptor (1912-2000)
- Cycling is the maximum
of poetical might allowed to human body. (Alfredo Oriani) Italian author (1852-1909)
- The bicycle is a
way to tune life with time and space, is going and staying within
a still human dimension. (Sergio
Zavoli) Italian
journalist and author (1923-2020)
- The likableness
of the bicycle comes from the fact that no invasion has ever been
made on bicycle. (Didier
Tronchet) French
cartoonist and author (1958-) from: "Petit
traité de vélosophie", 2000.
- The bicycle is the
noblest invention of mankind. (William
Saroyan) US-Armenian
author (1908-1981)
- Think of bicycles
as rideable art that can just about save the world. (Grant Petersen) bicycle designer
(1954-)
- It would not be
at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection
of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.
(Author Unknown)
- When the spirits
are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous,
when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bike and go
out for a spin down the road, without thought of anything but
theride you are taking. (Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle) English
author (1859-1930)
- Nothing compares
to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) President of the United States
(1917-1963)
- 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) US author (1899-1961)
- Those who wish to
control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients
and consumers - those people ride a bike. (Wolfgang Sachs) German scientist (1946-)
- Nowadays, a century
later, the bicycle is proving to be increasingly important. It's
a key to movement and interpretation of large cities. It's a social
contribution. It has no contraindications. It's good for your
body and your mood. Those who go by bicycle, whistle, think, plan,
sing, smile. Those who goes by car, turn nasty or sad. The bicycle
has never disappointed me. Bicycle is smile, and deserves the
Nobel Peace Prize. (Alfredo
Martini) Italian
cyclist and National team coach (1921-2014)
- Like dogs, bicycles
are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people.
(Chip Brown)
US
author
- The bicycle had,
and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind
of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a
Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does
no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend
to free us from our normal environment. (John Brinckerhoff "Brinck" Jackson)
US
author (1909-1996)
- With no other invention
business is so closely mixed with pleasure as with bicycle. (Adam Opel) German industrialist
(1837-1895)
- The cyclist is a
man half made of flesh and half of steel that only our century
of science and iron could have spawned. (Louis Baudry de Saunier) French author and journalist (1865-1938)
- When I go biking,
I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue
sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This
helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work,
leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I
still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But
I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking
someone else's heart. (Diane
Ackerman) US
author and poet (1948-)
- The bicycle is the
triumph of human thought on the inertia of matter. Two wheels
that barely touch the ground and that may seem wings [...] a prodigy
of speed and elegance. (Paolo
Mantegazza) Italian
author and anthropologist (1831 -1910)
political
- Cycle tracks will
abound in Utopia. (Herbert
George Wells) English
author (1866-1946)
- Socialism can only
arrive by bicycle. (José
Antonio Viera Gallo) Chilean
politician in Allende’s and Bachelet's government (1943-)
- Let me tell you
what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate
women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every
time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives woman a feeling
of freedom and self-reliance (...) the picture of free, untrammeled
womanhood. (Susan
B. Anthony) US
civil rights leader (1820-1906)
- My relationship
with the bicycle has always been of equality: not one above and
the other below, but both above or both below, depending on who
fell first. (Francesco
Salvi) Italian
comedian (1953-)
- The bicycle's worst
enemy is not car, but prejudice. (Margot Wallström) Swedish politician, former EU Environment Commissioner (1954-)
- It was like the
air you breathe, an essential means to move quickly in any situation.
Without a bicycle it would have been inconceivable to do the things
that I accomplished (Giovanni
Pesce)
Italian Partisan nicknamed
"Ivaldi" and "Visone" (1918-2007) source: Giannantoni and Paolucci
(2008)
poetical
- Melancholy is incompatible
with bicycling. (James
Edward Starrs) US
researcher and author
(1930-2021) from: "The Noiseless Tenor"
- A bicycle ride is
a flight from sadness. (James
Edward Starrs) US
researcher and author
(1930-2021) from: "The Literary Cyclist"
- Love is like the
Tour de France: you wait a long time for it and it passes by.
(anonymous)
- The bicycle, the
bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and
poets. (Christopher
Morley) US
author (1890-1957)
- The bicycle is the
most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport
grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure
in heart. (Iris
Murdoch) English
author
(1919-1999)
from:
"The Red and the Green", 1965.
- Pain is a big fat
creature riding on your back. The farther you pedal, the heavier
he feels. The harder you push, the tighter he squeezes your chest.
The steeper the climb, the deeper he digs his jagged, sharp claws
into your muscles. (Scott
Martin)
- I was too young
to drive a car, so I made love with the girls on the back seat
of my bicycle. (Woody
Allen) US
director and comedian (1935-)
- Contrary to what
happens when I drive my car, where the landscape allows to be
seen and not to be, on a bicycle I sit on the middle of it. (Paul Fournel) French author
(1947-) from "Besoin de vélo"
(2001).
- The bicycle is not
a mean of transport, it's a fairy tale. (Jean-Noël Blanc) French author (1945-)
- 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. (Herbert
George Wells) English
author (1866-1946)
from:
"The Wheels of Chance"
scientific
- The bicycle is the
perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance
of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the
efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.
(Ivan Illich)
Austrian
author
(1926-2002)
from:
Energy and Equity, 1974
- For instance, the
bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting
calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand
miles per gallon. (Bill
Strickland) US
author (1964-) from: "The
Quotable Cyclist"
- Bicycling is the
nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane
simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it
gives him no wings of his own. (Louis J. Helle, Jr.) US naturalist (1910-1998) from: "Spring in Washington"
1947
pessimistic
- When you overtake
a cyclist, always leave him enough room to fall. (Author Unknown) from the newspaper
"Le Républicain Lorrain" - August 14th 1954
- Every cyclist, even
a beginner, knows that at a certain moment of his life he will
have an appointment with a car door. (Paul Fournel) French author (1947-) from "Besoin de vélo" (2001).
- What do you call
a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor. (David Perry)
- Get a bicycle. You
will not regret it if you live. (Mark Twain) US author (1835-1910) from: Taming the Bicycle (1886)
(text)
- The sound of a car door
opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being
cocked.
(Amy Webster)
- You never have the
wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good
day. (Daniel
Behrman) US
author
(1924-1990) from:
The Man Who Loved Bicycles.
- Stopping, when you
ride a bicycle, it's a bit like falling. (Louis Mermaz) French politician (1931-)
- Those who ride a
bicycle know that in life nothing is really flat. (René Fallet) French author
(1927-1983)
- Those who say that
it must reach the bottom to get back on top never rode a bicycle.
(Author Unknown)
- Use rubber instead
of concrete when building roads in major cities to reduce the
number of injuries to cyclists. (Parti
Rhinocéros)
The Promises (2021) (link)
- Tired of bneing
fat and ugly? Buy a bike and just be ugly. (Corry Cycles) from: YouTube - Brown Bear
tart
- There are two kinds
of cyclists: those who make themselves knocked down by the car
drivers, and those who run over the pedestrians. (Benjamin Dereca)
- Cycling is like
a church - many attend, but few understand. (Jim Burlant)
wise
- Life is like riding
a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. (Albert Einstein) US physicist,
Nobel prize (1879-1955)
- Falling asleep at
the wheel is really dangerous, falling asleep on a bicycle is
really uncommon, falling asleep while walking is really foolish.
(Philippe Geluck)
Belgian
humorist (1954-) from "Le
chat est content".
- Whitout the invention
of the wheel, the Tour de France cyclists would be condemned to
carry their bicycles on their back. (Pierre Dac) French humorist (1893-1975)
- It's stupid to ride
up a climb by bicycle when is enough to turn away to ride it down.
(Pierre Dac)
French
humorist (1893-1975)
- People don't give
up pedaling when they grow old, they grow old when they give up
pedaling. (Author
Unknown)
- I prefer a bicycle
to a horse, the brakes are more easily checked. (Lambert Jeffries)
- Life is like a ten
speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. (Charles M. Schulz) US cartonist (1922-2000)
- The bicycle is a
curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. (John Howard) US Olympic cyclist
(1947-)
- If you worried about
falling off the bike, you’d never get on. (Lance Armstrong) US cyclist (1971-)
- Why should anyone
steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?. (Flann O'Brien) Brian O'Nolan,
Irish author
(1911-1966)
SOURCES:
- GIANNANTONI
Franco, PAOLUCCI Ibio (2008) La bicicletta nella Resistenza. Storie
partigiane. Arterigere-Chiarotto Editore.
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GINO
& MICHELE, MOLINARI Matteo (1995) Le formiche. Anno terzo.
Zelig, Milano.
- PIVATO Stefano (1992) La bicicletta e il sol dell'avvenire:
sport e tempo libero nel socialismo della Belle époque.
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created: October
6th, 2011 and last updated:
February
9th, 2024