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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

  Lillian Hellman

  Baby, Believe, Views

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

  Horace

  Travel, Happy Life, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

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• Dear A & M, I talked to the manager of the Beauty Bar because I definitely saw you guys getting married against a hot pink backdrop, but he doesn't think we can fit more than fifty people inside and I'm thinking three hundred. How would you feel about getting married in the park? It might get cold, but you could ride a horse-drawn carriage to the ceremony. How do you feel about matching wedding crowns? -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Thinking, People

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• By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

  Max Nordau

  Flying, Generations, Machines

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• I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

  Honor Blackman

  Relax, Quiet, Ifs

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• I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

  Dolley Madison

  Paper, Cabinets, Wagons

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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