Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-27
SOME BICYCLE PROVERBS,

II at ufSC you don succeed, fail, fall /
again.
It's a wise child that knows its own
bicycle
There's many slip 'twixt sidewalk
and saddle.
Fools ride in where champions fear
to pebble tread.
\ cat may look at d bloomered thing.
United we stand, bifurcated we fall.
The crank will turn.
Ones too few; three too many.
A bicycle in time saves long walk
Necessity is the mother of extension
in the bicycle factory.
'Tis feet that make the wheels go
round.
The race is not always to the
scorcher.
You can't make a high-gra bike
out of a sow's ear.
A man without a bicycle is bow
without an arrow.
Look before you leap; the road may
be slippery.
A fool and his bicycle are soon
parted.
Strike out while the sun isn't hot.
He that rides fast will not ride long
It's never too late to mend your tires.
A bicycle in the hand is worth Two
in the pawnshop.
A bad paddock invites pick-lock.
A falling wheelman will catch at a
straw.
plpSp mouth catches No flies
A puncture known is half mended.
Two's company; three's a crowd.
A father is treasure, brother a
comfort, but bicycle is both.
A hog in bicycle armor is still but a
hog.
A happy heart makes bloomering
visage.
A friend in need is friend who
wants to borrC your repair kit.
A rolling wheel gathers no moss.
A stitch in tire saves SO.
Half loaf is better than no vaca-
ton.
Pride goeth before a fall.
Barking dogs seldom bike.
He that rides ere he be ready wants
some O. his gear.
A little leak will sink a great tire.
A mole wants no lantern, but cy-
clist does.
A little saddle, like a little knowl-
edge, is a dangerous thing.
Boys will be men. So will some
women bicycle riders.
Care will kill a cat but not bicycle.
A penny more buys a whistle.
Delays are dangerous; so are headers.
Bicycle touring begins at home and
ought to end there.
Don't buy bike in a poke.
Drive thy bicycle; let not that drive
thee.
Evening red and morning gray, are
unfailing signs of a genial day.
Fields have eyes and hedges ears.
Answer fools and scOrchers accord
ing to their folly.
Give him an inch and he'll take your
wheeO.
A good name plate keeps it's luster
in the da;l!-
Some are born great, others acquire
greatness, and some have bicycles
thrust upon them.
He is paced like an alderman.
He that fights and rides away will
live to ride another day.
A good bicycle cannot be a bad color.
Keep your own counsel and your own
bicycle.
Like hog, the scorcher does no good
till he dies.
Lose nothing for asking.
Don't make haste while the sun
shines.
Make the best of a. bad bicycle.
Never ride a free bicycle to death
No gale can equally serve all bicy-
clers.
Love me, love my bicycle.
A bicycle is good servant, but a bad
master.
Money makes the wheel go.
Of all birds give me a bicycle.
One may sooner fall than rise.
Now the women wear the breaches.
The best is the cheapest.
Every rose has its thorn, every BIZ
cycle it's puncture.
A good bicycle reputation is fair
estate.
An ape is ne'er so like an ape as
when he wears a scorcher's cape.
A ready way to lose your friend is to
lend him money or your bicycle.
Lame travellers should get out be
times.
A merry companion is music in a
journey.
A miss is as good as mile on he
front seat of tandem.
You can't teach an old bicycle rider
new tricks.
If wishes were bicycles, beggars
would soorch.
A fool may make more breaks in an
hour than wise man can repair III
seven years.
Beware of the fore part of a cheap
horse, the hind part of a cheap mule, |
and all parts of a cheap bicycle.
Experience is the best spoke in your
wheel.
Bikes don't laugh at locksmiths.
A reckless rider makes a fat church.
yard.-Chicago Times-HeralG.
A museum in Berlin has secured pos
session of Luther's bible which he used .
IN his study. It's margins are covered
With notes in the reformer's handwrit-
ng. It was printed in Basic in 1909. |
and is in an excellent state of preser-
TatiOn.