famous (and not-so-famous) quotes

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. ~ Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

If you can’t fly, then run,
if you can’t run, then walk,
if you can’t walk, then crawl,
but whatever you do,
you have to keep moving forward.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
~ Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist, poet and philosopher

A headwind is just a tailwind in your face. (“The glass is half full” attitude towards bike riding in loops)
~ Eric

It doesn’t get any easier; you just get faster.
~ Greg Lemond, American pro cyclist

When one tugs on a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
~ John Muir

No one wants war, but peace will not fall from the sky.
~ Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese president

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
~ Albert Einstein

Life is a complicated mess, at the best of times.
Eric

Ugly doesn’t age. 
~ Ian (from a discussion with Ian about Angus Young of AC/DC)

I’m glad I’m not as sick as I smell. 
~ Ian (about his diarrhea)

People we love are inevitably woven into the fabric of our lives. 
Eric

I draw the line at turds. 
~ Chris (commenting on what all Eric eats)

Half man. Half bike. Half crazy.
~ Eric (describing himself by extrapolating on the Eddie Merckx biography title)

It matter who pulls your pants down.
~ Jeanneke (commenting on PSWs competence or lack thereof)

Everything in moderation.
~ Jeanneke (about successfully navigating through life, in general)

Bike ride calls my name,
Rain whispers, “stay home, my friend”
Nature decides fate.
~ ChatGPT (based on Ian’s prompt:
Write this as a haiku- “I don’t want to go for a bike ride today because it is raining”)