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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
My feet is my only carriage. -- Bob Marley
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere. -- Maxim Gorky
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. -- Publilius Syrus
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay. -- Grace Jones
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. -- Lillian Hellman
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. -- Thomas de Quincey
To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows. -- Ivan Panin
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage. -- Kitty Kelley
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. -- Emily Dickinson
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. -- O. Henry
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
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
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
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
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
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic. -- Grace Abbott
Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them. -- William Dampier
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another. -- George Bernard Shaw
The one thing I find the least romantic is taking a horse and carriage ride. I can't express enough how unhappy these horses are and how much pain and suffering they go through each day. Please do not ride [in horse-drawn carriages]. Take a beautiful walk together with your loved ones instead of bringing more pain to these beautiful animals. -- Lea Michele
In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere. -- Maxim Gorky
One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants. -- Susanna Clarke
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose. -- Anne Campbell
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. -- James Buchan
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character. -- Julian Assange
If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals. -- Lu Xun
I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving. -- Johnny Depp
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city. -- Laozi

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