Excessive Speed

Famous quotes containing the words excessive speed, excessive and/or speed:

“Excessive speed gets one nowhere.”
—Chinese proverb.

Confucian Analects.

“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)

“There was such speed in her little body,
And such lightness in her footfall,
It is no wonder her brown study
Astonishes us all.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)