Road Etiquette Quotes

I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

You don't gossip while your man is driving. You sit there quietly until you're about 5 minutes from your destination then you say, would you like some road head?

You take care and I hope I'll run into you - when I'm driving.

I had never driven in England on the left side of the road. I had never driven an automatic car.

It's so nice to share a day as beautiful as this one with hundreds of thousands of reckless drivers.

So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.

In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.

On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.

Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in the passing lane?

I am tired and weary because people are continually forcing me off the road. I was actually honked off once.

When you look the wrong way to cross the street, you've got to be careful with it.

Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

I drive relatively fast - within the remits of the law, obviously - but I struggle with people who do stupid things on the road. I have a massive urge to shout expletives at them.

Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.

When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.

The Highway Code can't be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear fission instructions in Old Japanese.

The supreme rule of the road is the rule of mutual forbearance.

Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.