Used Car Quotes

Oct 12, 2009 - Quotes - Week 02

For those readers too young to remember, a car used to be a simple piece of machinery, something like a very fast rider mower but better because you couldn't mow the lawn with it. You started this up, drove off at pretty much any speed you desired, and then exercised a variety of constitutionally guaranteed liberties.... No more--nowadays if a car cannot survive a drop from the Gateway Arch and emits any vapors more noxious than Evening in Paris, the federal government won't let you own it, and what they will let you own you can't really drive, because fifty-five miles an hour is the speed at which a spirited person parallel-parks, not motors to Chicago. ~ P.J. O'Rourke, Republican Party Reptile, 1987.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. ~ Mac McCleary.

When I become president, all you a**holes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down! ~ Denis Leary, Lock 'N Load (1997).

[In 2000] Commuters will go to the city in huge aerial buses that hold 200 passengers. Hundreds of thousands more will make such journeys twice a day in their own helicopters. ~ Waldemar Kaempfert, Popular Mechanics, 1950.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~ Albert Einstein.

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