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Haste is of the Devil. -- St. Jerome
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. -- Henry David Thoreau
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. -- Benjamin Franklin
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. -- Henry David Thoreau
Haste is blind and improvident. -- Livy
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. -- Lord Byron
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him. -- Aeschylus
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. -- William Godwin
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. -- Samuel Johnson
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely -- Ray Bergman
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Haste, the great enemy. -- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Haste is always ungraceful. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Haste is from the Devil. -- Idries Shah
Haste is a poor counselor -- Alexandre Dumas
Haste denies all acts their dignity. -- Dante Alighieri
Haste makes work which caution prevents. -- William Penn
Haste breeds error; error breeds woe. -- Janet Morris
Haste in every business brings failures. -- Herodotus
Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything. -- Statius
Haste is needful in a desperate case. -- William Shakespeare
Haste is good only in catching fleas. -- Alla Yaroshinskaya
Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God. -- H. L. Mencken
Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later. -- Jesse Lacey
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. -- Seneca the Younger
Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp. -- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence... -- Max Ehrmann
Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed. -- Jonathan Edwards
Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run. -- Cheshire Cat
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time. -- Ovid
Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel -- Rachel Caine
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves. -- Thomas Chatterton
Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now. -- Ovid
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you're lagging, I may remember him! -- Emily Dickinson
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. -- John Milton
Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never paid dividends. Never wory about the fellow ahead of you. If you start racing to get ahaead of him, he'll probably try to beat you, and from then on it will be nothing but a foot-race instead of a contemplative and inspiring recreation. -- Ray Bergman
Take time for all things. -- Benjamin Franklin
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs. -- Silius Italicus
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. -- Moliere
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. -- John Wesley
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. -- Thomas Shadwell
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. -- Tacitus
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. -- Plato
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. -- William Congreve
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. -- Aaron Hill
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. -- Lord Byron
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. -- Theodore Roethke
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. -- Vincent de Paul
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident. -- Livy
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. -- Maria Mitchell
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it. -- Confucius
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. -- Henry David Thoreau
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. -- Horatio Nelson
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. -- Arthur Henderson
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation. -- Gustav Stresemann
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. -- Augustine Birrell
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition. -- Barbara Jordan
If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present. -- Stewart Udall
It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm. -- Samuel Johnson
Make haste cautiously. -- Augustus
All haste implies weakness. -- George MacDonald
Festina lente. Make haste slowly. -- James Rollins
Reckless haste makes poor speed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Frederick Tilney
Marry in haste, repent at leisure. -- Walter Scott
Stumbling is the fruit of haste. -- Muhammad Ali
Stillness is the ruler of haste. -- Laozi
Never make a promise in haste. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Too great haste leads us to error. -- Moliere
Do not spoil the wonder with haste! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Error is ever the sequence of haste. -- Duke of Wellington
The more haste, ever the worst speed. -- Charles Churchill
Publish in haste and repent at leisure. -- Mason Cooley
Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste. -- William Shakespeare
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. -- Tacitus
Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. -- J. K. Rowling
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. -- William Shakespeare
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure. -- Gelett Burgess
Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity. -- Robert E. Murray
Do not make too much haste on one's road. -- Chilon of Sparta
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste. -- Saadi
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity. -- Samuel Johnson
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -- William Shakespeare
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. -- Alphonse Karr
Make haste to live, and consider each day a life. -- Seneca the Younger
Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art. -- Jeanette Winterson
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly. -- Statius
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. -- May Sarton
The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage. -- Howard Raiffa
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure -- Proverb
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste. -- Og Mandino
Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. -- Ben Vereen
An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow. -- Pietro Metastasio
My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone. -- Oliver Cromwell
When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste. -- Vasily Chuikov
Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it. -- Al-Tabarani
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness. -- Dallas Willard
In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost. -- Laozi
Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past. -- John Dryden
My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste. -- Gene Ween
Make haste" Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that. -- Shannon Hale
So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness. -- Sun Tzu
When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. -- Ambrose Bierce
In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon. -- Dennis DeYoung
We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling. -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. -- William Congreve

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