“In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

Anita Shreve (1946–2018) American writer

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“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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“It is not gymnastics or ice skating, you know.”

Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner

Attributed by Tom Knight, "Zatopek: 'human locomotive' who made Olympic history", Telegraph, 23 November 2000 (Telegraph Media Group) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/2993266/Athletics-Zatopek-human-locomotive-who-made-Olympic-history.html
regarding his lack of finesse

“A poet of my kind
Skates on the thinnest ice.”

Edward Lucie-Smith (1933) British art critic, writer and curator

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“I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

“The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety.”

Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942) polish politician

Source: Program III PR, 10 November 2006

“Jesus never walked on water, but he was always on thin ice.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

“Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price.
I'm throwing the dice in the air.”

Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist

"Walking On Thin Ice" on Season of Glass (1981) - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1DHm7p1sm4
Context: Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price.
I'm throwing the dice in the air.
Why must we learn it the hard way
And play the game of life with your heart?

“To know and to do His will – this is our safety; this is our rest.”

James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China

(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 122).

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”

Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer

“In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.”

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