Rashness is not valour. [ Proverb ]

Reckless haste makes poor speed. [ Franklin ]

Rashness is not always fortunate. [ Livy ]

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [ Cervantes ]

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. [ Hen. V ]

Rashness and haste make all things insecure. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [ La Fontaine ]

Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age. [ Cicero ]

None are rash when they are not seen by anybody. [ Stanislaus ]

Rashness may conquer, but its not likely it should. [ Proverb ]

Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [ Phaedrus ]

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. [ Napoleon I ]

Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses. [ Proverb ]

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. [ Roger Ascham ]

Rashness is the fruitful but unhappy parent of misfortune. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. [ Wellington ]

Blind fortune treads on the steps of inconsiderate rashness. [ La Fontaine ]

True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. [ Horace ]

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

I was too hasty to condemn unheard; and you perhaps too prompt in your replies. [ Dryden ]

We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at and lose by overrunning. [ William Shakespeare ]

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? [ Addison ]

It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. [ Cicero ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best, may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all, will never hit it. [ Owen Feltham ]

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 ]

Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable things, nor inconsult rashness, but virtue fighting for a truth, derived from knowledge of distinguishing good or bad causes. [ Nabb ]

Nothing is more unreasonable than to entangle our spirits in wildness and amazement; like a partridge flattering in a net, which she breaks not, though she breaks her wings. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Each successive generation plunges into the abyss of passion, without the slightest regard to the fatal effects which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rashness with which they slighted the advice of experience, and stifled the voice of reason. [ Steele ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]