When Not To Stop Too Fast

Water rusts pipes. - WC Fields

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

Defendit numerus: There is safety in numbers. - Unknown

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room. - James Douglas

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. - Unknown

Never invest emergency savings in the stock market. - Suze Orman

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. - Philip Brookes

As your runway of life gets shorter, the lighter the load. - Joe Segal

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce

You think I just drove in from Long Island on a load of turnips? - Archie Bunker

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe and exhaled in a pun. - Charles Lamb

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. - John Madden

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. - R.L. Stine

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. - Jackie Mason

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. - Lou Holtz

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are. - Brad Pitt

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. - Charles Dickens

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis. - Elvis Presley

I think you could build a couple of humans with the amount of skin lost on the reef at Pipe. - Martin Potter

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. - David Lehman

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck. - Venus Williams

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it. - Michael McDonald

My husband is so good at home repairs that they have a special VIP area for him in the emergency room. - Unknown

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pick-up truck, and end up with a station wagon. - Tim Allen

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

She ran after the garbage truck yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?"
The driver said, "No, jump in!" - Red Skelton

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. - Mark Helprin