7 quotes
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
Taming the Bicycle (1917)
Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.
Taming the Bicycle (1917)
I started out alone to seek adventures. You don't really have to seek them—that is nothing but a phrase—they come to you.
Taming the Bicycle (1917)
Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any.
Taming the Bicycle (1917)
The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers
Taming the Bicycle (1917)
The bicycle had what is called the 'wabbles', and had them very badly. In order to keep my position, a good many things were required of me, and in every instance the thing required was against nature. Against nature, but not against the laws of nature.
Taming the Bicycle (1917)
There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life—life's "experiences"—are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.
Taming the Bicycle (1917)