“It is indeed more worthwhile taking the road less traveled. You are sure to suffer, hurt, curse and get frustrated. But in the end you’ll always come out the other end with more than a tale. You’ll have a spot in your memory that will always take your breath away every time you revisit it.”
Robert Thomson.
” Imagine, do not believe “
Wim Harwig.
“She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life“
Frances E. Willard in; How I Learned To Ride The Bicycle (1895)
” The weak characters are the ones who will lose them…………The strong ones only start wars ! “
Wim Harwig.
“If you don’t honour your forefathers,…………..You’re not worthy to use your surname“
(wie z’n voorvaderen niet eert, is z’n naam niet waard )
old saying in the Netherlands.
“Respect the bike lanes, and the bikers will respect you. We will even stop to avoid ruining your pictures, give you painstaking directions to wherever you want to go, and do what we can to explain the Dutch culture. Just please, stay off the bike lane! “
Janelle Ward.
“Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.”
unknown.
“If we end up serving our plans, instead of them serving us, then we’ve kinda lost the plot.”
Lee
“Everyone who uses the public way has both rights and responsibilities. That includes motorists, cyclists, pedestrians, and even horse back riders or horse-drawn vehicles. I’m getting fed up with motorists who think that their larger, heavier, more powerful vehicle gives them a greater right to use that public space, and I’m getting especially fed up with the pencil-necked geeks who use their vehicles as weapons. It’s an annoying problem, and that problem has a solution.
Cyclists should carry guns.”
CycleDog
“The older I am, the better I was.”
unknown.
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you
their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have
either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care.
Either case is a failure of leadership.”
Colin Powell
“Bicyclists are anarchist, buspassengers communist and motorists fascist”
inti pelupessym University Leiden, in de Stelling. (de Telegraaf 23-4-2005)
Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
unknown
As with all travelers, I’ve seen more than I remember, and remember more than I’ve seen.
unknown.
Imagine a world where there is no such thing as a bicycle helmet.
Amsterdamize.
“never travel without duct tape”
Rob Thomson
Person A (in Person B’s house): “Mind if I smoke?”
Person B: “Mind if I shit in your mouth?”
messengerofdoom
