Walking and cycling quotations. “Now shall I walk or shall I ride?”

• “The distance is nothing, only the first step is difficult” – Madame du Deffand
• “On every mountain, height is rest” – Goethe
• “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking” – Nietzsche
• “I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking down the same river” – Zhuangzi
• “Now shall I walk or shall I ride? Ride, pleasure said, walk, joy replied”
• “Walking is man’s best medicine” – Hippocrates
• “Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking” – Machado
• “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to” – Bilbo Baggins
• “But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.” – Gwyn Thomas
• “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than one seeks.” – John Muir
• “The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.” – Tibetan Proverb
• “When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function” – J. G. Hamann
• “It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks” – Anatole France
• “To be everywhere is to be nowhere” – Seneca
• “One meeting by chance is worth a thousand meetings by appointment” – Arab saying
• “In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.” – David McCord
• “For knowledge, add; For wisdom, take away.” – Charles Simic
• “To go fast, go alone; to go far, go together” – African proverb
• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
• “I like the bicycle for oblivion it gives. I can walk, I think. On a bicycle I go in the wind, I do not think, and nothing is so delicious.” – Emile Zola
• “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Goethe
• “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “My grandmother started walking 5-miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres
• “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” – John Muir
• “Not all those who wander are lost” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “I haven’t got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don’t need any other god.” – Bruce Chatwin

The collection grows – do you know any more?