A Quote by Dervla Murphy

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

Dervla Murphy

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Advantages Automatically Becoming Cycling Expedition Journey Prevents

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Dervla Murphy
Irish - Cyclist
Born: November 28, 1931

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Wilson Mizner

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great!

Adrian Bell

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Peter O'Toole

I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.

Tom Hodgkinson

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.

Kelly Cutrone

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.

Greg LeMond

What women need are not benefits and advantages but a merit-based selection process that will allow them to automatically benefit from various opportunities.

Chanda Kochhar

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Henri Bergson

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.

Milton Friedman

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.