“In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Prudence
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.
“I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.”
— Stephen King, book Bag of Bones
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