Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

cars

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

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.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

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

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

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

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.