"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." - Noelie Altito

"Middle Age - When you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go." - Anonymous

"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"Life is too short for traffic." - Dan Bellack

"People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him." - Art Buchwald, Have I Ever Lied to You?

"People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black." - Henry Ford

"The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond." - Edward McDonagh, in Time

"To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism." - SINCLAIR LEWIS, Babbitt

"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell,of urban and suburban man." - MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Understanding Media

"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." - LEWIS MUMFORD, quoted in Quote magazine

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, geta million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Cringely, Robert X. from 'InfoWorld'

"Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph." - Samuels, Jim