Carriage Quotes

Carriage Quotes & Sayings

These carriage quotes and carriage sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position. Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with. - Robert Louis Stevenson


An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. - Publius [Publilius Syrus]


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 third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another. - George Bernard Shaw


Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. (Because I could not stop for Death) - Emily Dickinson


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. [La., Coelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est] - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]


Love and marriage, love and marriage Go together like a horse and carriage Dad was told by mother You can't have one without the other. (Love and Marriage) - Sammy Cahn


Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. - Lillian Hellman


Mesmerism: Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked incredulity to dinner. (The Devil's Dictionary) - Ambrose Bierce


I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. - Samuel Johnson