Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old traffic quotes, traffic sayings, and traffic proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.J.G. Ballard
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.Margaret Thatcher
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The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety.Janusz Korwin-Mikke
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It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.Robert Breault
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Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.David Letterman
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A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.Andrew Joseph Galambos
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Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.David Riesman
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A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.Michael Frayn
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They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.Steven Wright
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I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life.Frank O'Hara
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If you're going to be in a traffic jam, at least enjoy the flavor. Make some toast.Bashar
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I have this working theory that the main cause of traffic after a car accident is rarely the accident itself. I think people just slow down to get a closer look at the wreckage.Kris Kidd
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Why do I always forget that traffic is a social affair?Stefan Emunds
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There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.William J. Mitchell
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.Benedict Cumberbatch
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The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.Osho Rajneesh
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The sound of the traffic is as faint as the roaring of a shell. John Cheever
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Traffic moved like flies through a sieve. Tom Robbins
The horn of plenty is the one behind you in traffic.Helen Eisenberg
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[There are] only two classes of pedestrians in these days of reckless motor traffic—the quick, and the dead.Lord Dewar
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When men were all asleep the snow came flying, / In large white flakes falling on the city brown, / Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, / Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. Robert Bridges
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. Dan Rather
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There is only one immutable law in life—in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way. Hugh Leonard
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Why do men take traffic stop signs, red lights and speed bumps as mere suggestions?Nancy Hopkins Reily
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I feel safer on a racetrack with the traffic going in the same direction and good drivers behind the wheels than I do on Houston expressways. A. J. Foyt
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In this City, even in its broadest streets, the flow of pedestrian traffic is continuous, and consequently, when any obstruction occurs which checks the current of this rushing human torrent, there is a formidable crush. Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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There are not traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach
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A clean traffic jam is still a traffic jam.Mohamed Mezghani
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The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams. Evan Esar