pace quotes

A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.16, section 5.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty- five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. 275

- Christian Dior
  In Collier's Magazine,10  Jun.

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb.We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forcedby what? Bya system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

- Erich Fromm
  The Sane Society.

by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

- Roger McGough
  'unlikely now'.

We all three got up on our elephant which brought us hither. For my own part I found [it] very uneasy riding, being badly seated and not accustomed (he had such a shuffling, jogging justling pace), sitting hindermost on the ridge of his monstrous massy chine bones, and nothing at all under me (nor they neither) that I wished myselfonfoot and would havelet myselffall off butthat it was somewhat too high. In fine, we alighted off from his back into the upper galleries of the house and saved the labour going upstairs.

- Peter Mundy
c.1620  On riding on an elephant. Travels (pubished c.1650).

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

- Henry David Thoreau
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Conclusion'.