Slow but sure. [ Motto ]
Slow, consuming age. [ Gray ]
Liberty is a slow fruit. [ Emerson ]
Divine grace was never slow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A slow fire makes sweet malt. [ Proverb ]
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. [ Proverb ]
God's mills grind slow but sure. [ Herbert ]
Success is a fruit slow to ripen.
A quick baker, and a slow brewer. [ Proverb ]
Slow and sure, like Pedley's mare. [ Proverb ]
Gods's mill grinds slow, but sure. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. [ Cervantes ]
The march of the human mind is slow. [ Burke ]
Learn to read slow; all other graces
Will follow in their proper places. [ Wm. Walker ]
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. [ Goldsmith ]
Love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him never make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe. [ Schiller ]
God's mill goes slow, but it grinds fine. [ German Proverb ]
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers. [ Swift ]
The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire. [ Publius Syrus ]
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both. [ Addison ]
To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III. Sc.1 ]
Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]
The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees.
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.
Three centuries he grows, and three he stays
Supreme in state; and in three more decays. [ Dryden ]
Be slow in considering, but resolute in action. [ Bias ]
The garden lies,
A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream. [ Tennyson ]
Excels in speech, but of a right hand slow to war. [ Virgil ]
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good. [ Tennyson ]
Slow may that day approach, and long after our time. [ Ovid ]
A prince should be slow to punish, prompt to reward. [ Ovid ]
Great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results. [ Lowell ]
Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run. [ Sir William Davenant ]
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. [ William Pitt ]
Think with terror on the slow, the quiet power of time. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
One should be slow in listening to criminal accusations. [ Publius Syrus ]
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [ Tacitus ]
Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long learning. [ Seneca ]
Men are slow to repose confidence in undertakings of magnitude. [ Ovid ]
Maidens shoud be mild and meek, quick to hear and slow to speak. [ Proverb ]
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. [ Lowell ]
We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would work us harm. [ Ovid ]
Zeal and duty are not slow; But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. [ Milton ]
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. [ Ovid ]
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time. [ Voltaire ]
Flight towards preferment will be but slow, without some golden feathers. [ Proverb ]
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one. [ Goldsmith ]
The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his conduct. [ Confucius ]
You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe. [ Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, The Sour-Toe Cocktail ]
A higher morality, like a higher intelligence, must be reached by a slow growth. [ Herbert Spencer ]
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure. [ Sheridan ]
Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler. [ Steele ]
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. [ Socrates ]
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed. Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The poet's leaves are gathered one by one, in the slow process of the doubtful years. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Wounds of the heart! your traces are bitter, slow to heal, and always ready to reopen. [ A. de Musset ]
Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! Loitering slow, the Future creepeth. [ Schiller ]
Reason's progressive; instinct is complete; swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. [ Young ]
Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious aild merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. [ Bible ]
Friendship is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. [ La Bruyere ]
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. [ Beaconsfield ]
Real friendship is a slow grower; and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. [ Chesterfield ]
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. [ George Henry Lewes ]
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes. [ Jane Porter ]
The discovery of truth by slow, progressive meditation is talent. Intuition of the truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. [ Lavater ]
Imagination is a mettled horse that will break the rider's neck when a donkey would have carried him to the end of his journey, slow but sure. [ Southey ]
As a man's yes and no, so his character. A prompt yes or no marks the firm, the quick, the decided character; and a slow, the cautious or timid. [ Lavater ]
If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must never undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. [ Washington ]
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God. [ Jeremy Bentham ]
Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it! To speak or to write, Nature did not peremptorily order thee; but to work she did. [ Carlyle ]
Their avenging God! rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in slow fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to recognize a man who made himself a god. [ A. de Musset ]
A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by debauchery; but if he keeps within his own dwellings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. [ A. S. Roe ]
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good ; exercise ; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]