Can you guess the original quote?
Test yourself with this bicycle quote mashup quiz. I’ve replaced the words highlighted in red with another bike-related word. Can you guess the original quote and author?
By the way, the answer to the picture above is if you take a bicycle and subtract a wheel, you get a unicycle.
I never met a bicycle I didn’t like.
~ Answer- You must be the bicyclist you wish to see in the world. ~ Answer
- If you want to make a bicycle from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~ Answer
- Not all those who bicycle are lost. ~ Answer
- Hitch your wagon to a bicycle. ~ Answer
- Veni, vidi, bici. (I came. I saw. I bicycled.) ~ Answer
- To bike, or not to bike: that is NOT a question. ~ Answer
- Bicycles are a girl’s best friend. ~ Answer
- You should ride a bicycle for twenty minutes every day, unless you’re too busy; then you should ride for an hour. ~ Answer
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him a bicycle. ~ Answer
- To the man who only has a bicycle, everything he encounters begins to look like a road. ~ Answer
- You miss 100% of the bike rides you don’t take. ~ Answer
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I never met a bicycle I didn’t like.
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I never met a man I didn’t like.
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You must be the bicyclist you wish to see in the world.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~
Above is the popularized quote, but the actual quote from Gandhi is: “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him… We need not wait to see what others do.”
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If you want to make a bicycle from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~
Carl Sagan is also famous for this bicycle quote:
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. ~
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Not all those who bicycle are lost.
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Not all those who wander are lost. ~
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Veni, vidi, bici. [I came. I saw. I bicycled.]
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Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered.] ~
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To bike, or not to bike: that is NOT the question.
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To be, or not to be: that is the question: ~
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Bicycles are a girl’s best friend.
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Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. ~
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You should ride a bicycle for twenty minutes every day, unless you’re too busy; then you should ride for an hour.
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You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day, unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour. ~
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him a bicycle.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. ~
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To the man who only has a bicycle, everything he encounters begins to look like a road.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. ~
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You miss 100% of the bike rides you don’t take.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ~
