Tom Doig > Tom's Quotes

“A peasant with gold is still a peasant”
― Tom Doig, Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure

“Cycling, like masturbation, is fun and easy to do - sometimes all day long.”
― Tom Doig, Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure

“the Marmots of Impure Thinking were being banished by the Bicycle Wheel of Truth”
― Tom Doig, Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure

“Little wonder I am celebrated by in-flight magazines everywhere as 'The Richard Branson of the Dark Ages”
― Tom Doig, Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure

“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Zang!”
― Tama Pugsley

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“A world without hope, but no despair”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer