Carriages Quotes

• When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspirational, Sleep, Night

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1928). “Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”

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• In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

  Maxim Gorky

  Past, Curiosity, Mindfulness

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• To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, World, Window

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• Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Marriage, Brother

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• An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kindness, Journey, Companion

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 143, 1856.

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• In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Wife, Walks, Walking

  Thomas De Quincey (1867). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. And analects from John Paul Richter ... New edition”, p.23

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• Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  William T. Piper

  Dog, Baby, Nature

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• Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Faces, Wheels

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• A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

  Henry James

  Horse, Dark, Night

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2534, e-artnow

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• A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

  Publilius Syrus

  Journey, Yesterday, Each Day

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• I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

  Josh Billings

  Entrepreneur, Looks, Used

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• I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

  George Sand

  Country, Paris, Profound

  George Sand (2009). “The George Sand-gustave Flaubert Letters: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Dancing, Ballet, Importance

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.99

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• The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Depressing, Cities, Mind

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Emotional

  "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Hero, Firefighter

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• When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more.

  Jane Birkin

  School, Trying, Bears

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• Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

  Grace Jones

  Bravery, Brave, Enough

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• The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Soul, Good Man

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• Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

  Josh Billings

  Pride, Men, He Man

  "Josh Billings' Wit and Humor".

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• I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

  Grace Abbott

  Girl, Baby, Responsibility

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• The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Heaven, Soul

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2523, e-artnow

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• Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

  William Dampier

  Morning, Engagement, Afternoon

  William Dampier (1703). “A New Voyage Round the World”, p.147

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• The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

  Kitty Kelley

  Differences, Riding, Biographies

  "Unauthorized, But Not Untrue" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Wall, Writing

  On 'Don Juan' in a letter to Douglas Kinnaird, October 26 1819: L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 6 (1978)

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