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  • Hasty climbers have sudden falls. -- Robert Greene
  • Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. -- Decimus Laberius
  • Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy. -- Edmund Spenser
  • Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. -- William Penn
  • Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved. -- Winston Churchill
  • Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it. -- Francis Quarles
  • I don't believe in hasty marriages. -- Anna Held
  • College is a refuge from hasty judgment. -- Robert Frost
  • A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation. -- Publilius Syrus
  • How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. -- Robert Southey
  • I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. -- Wilkie Collins
  • I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. -- Will Durant
  • How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. -- Daniel Webster
  • I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling. -- Paul Theroux
  • One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. -- Walter Bagehot
  • Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. -- Jacques Barzun
  • Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car. -- Robert Plant
  • Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. -- Olympia Brown
  • Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments. -- Hideki Tojo
  • Nature's hasty conscience. -- Maria Edgeworth
  • Repentance follows hasty counsels. -- Publilius Syrus
  • The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell
  • Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures. -- Fidel Castro
  • Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. -- Moliere
  • Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions. -- Hideki Yukawa
  • Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously. -- Yi Sun-sin
  • The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union. -- Gerhard Schroder
  • Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day. -- Anthony Liccione
  • Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty. -- Robert Jordan
  • Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. -- John Dryden
  • The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. -- Jonathan Swift
  • The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty. -- Laozi
  • No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject. -- James Madison
  • There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. -- Thomas Huxley
  • It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
  • A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding. -- Joel Barlow
  • Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. -- Samuel Johnson
  • I have no time for babbling foolishness.â? "Don't be so hasty,â? said Victor. "There's always time for babbling. -- Eoin Colfer
  • Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. -- Seneca the Younger
  • General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
  • I may as well cut my losses and make a hasty exit while I still had enough self-esteem to walk upright. Crawling was so demoralizing -- Darynda Jones
  • I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation -- Lisa Kleypas
  • You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again. -- William Shakespeare
  • I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching. -- Margarita Engle
  • Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all. -- H. G. Wells
  • The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time. -- St. Vincent
  • Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away. -- David Perkins
  • What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. -- Wilfred Owen
  • Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice. -- Jacques Barzun
  • Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behavior, fondness for dress, on the other hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord. -- Emil Kraepelin
  • It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter. -- Gena Showalter
  • If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves. -- Confucius
  • I find that fashion recently has been a little too hasty. Often times, it's put together quickly to catch the attention of the media, and I didn't want to do that. -- Giorgio Armani
  • Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. -- Olympia Brown
  • History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it. -- John Buchan
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