The Best of Peter Egan Quotes

“I learned a long time ago to take this kind of advice with a large grain of salt. I’d been warned by Frenchmen to avoid Italy like the plague, by northerners not to ride through the Deep South, by mature adults to stay off motorcycles, by country folk not to walk around New York City, by all kinds of people not to fly airplanes, and by clergymen to stay away from girls in high school. I eventually learned that these advisors had two things in common: first, they had almost no experience with the thing they mistrusted; and second, they were always dead wrong.”
― Peter Egan, The Best of Peter Egan: Four Decades of Motorcycle Tales and Musings from the Pages of Cycle World

“When you were out traveling the good things raised your expectations a little, so when you got home you remembered them and wanted to concentrate some of the good ideas in the place you chose to settle down and live.”
― Peter Egan, The Best of Peter Egan: Four Decades of Motorcycle Tales and Musings from the Pages of Cycle World

“It was the kind of trip, sooner or later, you have to make. Especially if you are a motorcyclist and always looking for a good reason to travel. Or in my case even a fairly mediocre reason of practically no discernable consequence or socially redeeming value.”
― Peter Egan, The Best of Peter Egan: Four Decades of Motorcycle Tales and Musings from the Pages of Cycle World