My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
__ James Dean __
Biker Quotes, Wisdom & Humorisms: |
The sun on your back. Two fists in the wind. And the horizon teasing you farther down a great road. |
We had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. ~~ Jack Kerouac ~~ |
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass: it's about learning how to ride in the rain! |
The wisest men follow their own direction. ~~ Euripides ~~ |
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~~ J R R Tolkien ~~ |
Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness. ~~ Ray Bradbury ~~ |
Bikers and veterans go hand in hand and I can assure you that we never forget. That rumbling sound you hear when a group of bikes come together is not noise sir, it is the harmony of brotherhood coming together for a purpose and cause. ~~ Crysta Baker ~~ |
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~~ Miriam Beard ~~ |
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. ~~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~~ |
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ~~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~~ |
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~~ Beverly Sills ~~ |
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by. ~~ Robert Frost ~~ |
May all your encounters with the law begin with the words, NICE HARLEY. |
I love to travel, but hate to arrive. ~~ Albert Einstein ~~ |
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~~ Anatole France ~~ |
All that is Gold does not glitter, not all those that wander are lost. ~~ JRR Tolkien ~~ |
If I cannot be a good example... then I'll just have to be a horrible warning. |
No yesterdays on the road. ~~ William Least Heat Moon ~~ |
Our Nature lies in movement; complete calm is death. ~~ Blaise Pascal ~~ |
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ~~ Edward Abbey ~~ |
It's all about the journey, not the destination. |
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ~~ Henry Miller ~~ |
Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. |
Too often. . . I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. ~~ Louis L'Amour ~~ |
Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory. |
The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome. |
And I to my motorcycle Parked like the soul of the junkyard Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106, continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth, Wringing the handlebar for speed, Wild to be wreckage forever. ~~ James Dickey, Cherrylog Road |
If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride. |
Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. |
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. |
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~~ Ralph Walso Emerson ~~ |
Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude. |
Young riders pick a destination and go... Old riders pick a direction and go. |
Oh Shit! is usually the moment when your plan parts ways with reality. |
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, Wow! What a Ride! ~~ Hunter S. Thompson ~~ |
Sometimes it takes a whole tankful of fuel before you can think straight. |
Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at 70 mph can double your vocabulary. |
Gray-haired riders don't get that way from pure luck. |
There are drunk riders. There are old riders. There are NO old, drunk riders. |
You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze. |
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~~ Ursula K. LeGuin ~~ |
You don’t stop riding because you’re getting old, but you get old when you stop riding. |
God didn't create metal so that man could make paper clips! ~~ Harley-Davidson Ad ~~ |
Live to Ride. Ride to Live. |
If you don't ride... then you don't know. |
He who would travel happily must travel light. ~~ Saint Exupery ~~ |
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ~~ Saint Augustine ~~ |
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. ~~ Cesare Pavese ~~ |
Never trade the thrills of freedom for the fears of life's sharp turns. ~~ Harley-Davidson ~~ |
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. ~~ Iain Sinclair ~~ |
Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. ~~ Frank Herbert ~~ |
...nowadays I got me two good wheels And I seek refuge in aluminum and steel It takes me out there for just a little while And the years fall away with every mile |
Quite frequently, he who goes too fast gets there too late - or not at all. ~~ Zig Zigglar ~~ |
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ~~ Kurt Vonnegutt ~~ |
