Track Cycling World

Famous quotes containing the words track, cycling and/or world:

    “He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.”
    —Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)

    “Ah were she pitiful as she is fair,
    Or but as mild as she is seeming so,
    Then were my hopes greater than my despair,
    Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.”
    —Robert Greene (1558?–1592)