Faster, My Noble Steed!

Plodding wins the race. - Aesop

In the race for love, I was scratched. - Joan Davis

Thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot! - William Shakespeare

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. - Gail Tsukiyama

Racing is life. Everything else is just... waiting. - Steve McQueen

The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. - H L Mencken

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect. - Karl Pilkington

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. - Honore de Balzac

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. - H G Wells

The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race. - Susan Saint James

I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon. - Omari Hardwick

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle I have hope for the human race. - H G Wells

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. - Unknown

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race. - Mark Twain

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'. - Dave Barry

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Dave Barry

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. - Mark Twain

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Moscow Olympics, Lasse Viren came in fifth and ran a champion's race. - David Coleman

It's better to move forward at a snail's pace, than backward at any pace. - Rhonda Begos

All that separates... race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. - Kate Sheppard

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own. - St Augustine

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

Well over eighty per cent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. - H L Mencken

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race. - John Stuart Mill

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money. - Jack Nicholson

We're all trying to keep up in this stupid race. But that won't be much fun when we're floating in space. - John Symeou

A free Negro of the African race is not a 'citizen' within the meaning of the constitution of the United States. - Roger Taney

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don't know who would be worse, I don't know, how could it be worse? - Donald Trump

It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight. - Kalpana Chawla

The world, the race, the soul - in space and time the universes,
All bound as is befitting each - all surely going somewhere. - Walt Whitman

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. - Bertrand Russell

Perhaps someday I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow. - Sylvia Plath

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison

Approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. - Juan M Fangio