Hasten slowly. [ Augustus Caesar ]
Make haste slowly. [ Proverb ]
Haste makes waste. [ Constantine III ]
Haste with leisure. [ German Proverb ]
Haste not, rest not. [ Motto on Goethe's ring ]
Haste comes not alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fool's haste is no speed. [ Proverb ]
Error is always in haste. [ Proverb ]
Haste is always ungraceful. [ Lady Blessington ]
All haste implies weakness. [ George MacDonald ]
Haste trips up its own heels. [ Proverb ]
Great haste makes great waste. [ Ben. Franklin ]
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent. [ William Shakespeare ]
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]
The more haste, the worse speed. [ Proverb ]
Reckless haste makes poor speed. [ Franklin ]
Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]
Hastiness is improvident and blind. [ Livy ]
Error is ever the sequence of haste. [ Wellington ]
Fraud and deceit are always in haste. [ Proverb ]
The more haste, ever the worst speed. [ Churchill ]
Haste is needful in a desperate case. [ William Shakespeare ]
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]
Make not too much haste on a journey. [ Chilo ]
Precipitate haste leads to injustice. [ Euripides ]
Haste thee. Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful jollity.
Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles.
Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles. [ Milton ]
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure,
It is good to marry late or never. [ Proverb ]
Married in haste, we repent at leisure. [ Congreve ]
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that believeth shall not make haste. [ Bible ]
He who decides in haste repents in haste. [ Publius Syrus ]
Always be in haste, but never in a hurry. [ J. Wesley ]
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies. [ Haliburton ]
Rashness and haste make all things insecure. [ Sir J. Denham ]
Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]
Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast. [ Shakespeare ]
Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war.
And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream:
And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
On some great sudden haste. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
It is haste makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. [ Herrick ]
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. [ William Shakespeare ]
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. [ Byron ]
Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty. [ William Shakespeare ]
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. [ Tacitus ]
Modern wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste. [ William Shakespeare ]
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]
Rage is the shortest passion of our souls:
Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden showers,
It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. [ Rowe ]
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. [ John Wesley ]
An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow. [ Metastasio ]
Things will never be bettered by an excess of haste. [ Proverb ]
Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. [ Laberius ]
Unreasonable haste is often the direct road to error. [ Moliere ]
Make haste to an ill way, that you may get out of it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [ Bible ]
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. [ Seneca ]
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can stay a fair leisure. [ Proverb ]
Haste turns usually on a matter of ten minutes too late. [ Bovee ]
He who decides hastily, will soon repent of his decision. [ Publius Syrus ]
Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste. [ Emerson ]
It is of no use running, to set out betimes is the main point. [ La Fontaine ]
Who hath no haste in his business, mountains to him seem valleys. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The more haste we make in a wrong way, the further we are from our journey's end. [ Proverb ]
Truth is strengthened by observation and time, pretences by haste and uncertainty. [ Tacitus ]
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [ Boileau ]
Procure not friends in haste, and when thou hast a friend part not with him in haste. [ Solon ]
Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste. [ Franklin ]
Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the gudeman and the gudewife. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Coolness, and absence of heat and haste, indicate fine qualities. A gentleman makes no noise, a lady is serene. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Haste me to know it; that I with wings as swift as meditation, or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge. [ William Shakespeare ]
Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? [ Tillotson ]
Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them ever learns his master's trade. [ Colton ]
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. [ Chesterfield ]
Sir Amyas Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, Stay awhile, that we may make an end the sooner.
[ Bacon ]
No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful. [ George MacDonald ]
Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another. [ Jean Paul ]
Jealousy is said to be the offspring of love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
When men neglect God, they neglect their own safety; they procure their own ruin; they fly from their own happiness; they pursue their own misery, and make haste to be undone. [ J. Mair ]
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. [ Spurgeon ]
Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of being ten minutes too early. [ Bovee ]
It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved. [ George Sand ]