Excessive Speed

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 (1819–1891)

“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it—the speed of his acceptance.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)