Famous quotes containing the words excessive speed, excessive and/or speed:
“Excessive speed gets one nowhere.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
“A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancementin a word, with more renunciation than you care forand so you flee the contagion.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye, and death ith other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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