Like Bicycling, a Good Quote Never Gets Old

“Life is like a box of…” Bicycles? Ok, so clearly that doesn’t make sense – it’s chocolate! And according to Forrest Gump, you never know what you’re going to get. Well, with this post you do – you’re getting bicycle quotes! Unlike a quote around a box of bicycles, there are many quotes out there that do make sense in relation to bicycling. Listed below are a few of our favorite quotes about cycling from some of the world’s most famous writers, theorists/physicists, activists, musicians and more!

• “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

• “Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” – Charles Schulz

• “Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” – Mark Twain

• “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” – Ernest Hemingway

• “Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.” – John F. Kennedy

• “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” – Gloria Steinem

• “[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” – Helen Keller

• “Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall of unless you stop pedaling.” – Claude Pepper

• “Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.” – Bob Weir

• “Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.” – H.G. Wells

Know any bicycle-related quotes we didn’t include? It doesn’t have to be from someone famous to be great! Let us know what some of your favorite bicycle quotes are, below!