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Bicycle Quotation Mashup Quiz

Can you guess the original quote?

Test yourself with this bicycle quote mashup quiz. We’ve replaced one word with one of the following: bike, bicycle, bicyclist, road or ride. 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.

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Bicycle Quotation Mashup Quiz #1

Can you guess the original quote and author? I’ve changed the words highlighted in red.

  • 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

Copyright © 1999-2023. Please note these mashed-up quotes are copyrighted. They are NOT real. Do NOT use without credit. Please link to this website. Some of these mashed-up quotes are now misrepresented as “the best quotes of all time” when, in fact, they are fake. So, please stop plagiarizing my hard work.

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I never met a bicycle I didn’t like.

Answer

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.

Answer

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.

Answer

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~

Carl Sagan really did say this about bicycles:

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.

Answer

Not all those who wander are lost. ~

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Hitch your wagon to a bicycle.

Answer

Hitch your wagon to a star. ~

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Veni, vidi, bici. [I came. I saw. I bicycled.]

Answer

Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered.] ~

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To bike, or not to bike: that is NOT the question.

Answer

To be, or not to be: that is the question: ~

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Bicycles are a girl’s best friend.

Answer

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.

Answer

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.

Answer

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.

Answer

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. ~

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