bus quotes

O tell me the truth about love. When it comes, will it come without warning Just as I'm picking my nose? Will it knock on my door in the morning, Or tread in the bus on my toes?

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  'Twelve Poems', section12.

This bloody town's a bloody cuss No bloody trains, no bloody bus, And no one cares for bloody us In bloody Orkney.

- Hamish pseudonym of  Andrew James Fraser Blair Blair
  'The Bloody Orkneys', stanza1. First published in  Arnold Silcock Verse and Worse,'Queer People'.

Whatever may bethereasonwhether it wasthat Hitler thought hemight get away with what hehad got without fighting for it, or whether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently completehowever, one thing is certainhe missed the bus.

- (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain
  Speech at Central Hall, Westminster, 4  Apr.

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.'

- Harry Graham
  Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes,'Equanimity'.