Thin Ice
Where the phrase comes from · Card no. 4005
Emerson wrote in 1841 that in skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. The image is older than the phrase: a frozen pond that holds a child and not a man, and no way to tell which you are until you hear it.
No such place exists, which has never stopped anyone from going. Every card here is an original painting of a phrase, free to send by email or by link.