Famous quotes containing the words excessive speed, excessive and/or speed:
“Excessive speed gets one nowhere.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“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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