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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) IX, 9, 12 Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. - Thomas Shadwell Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty. - William Shakespeare Haste is needful in a desperate case. - William Shakespeare He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. - William Shakespeare I go, I go, look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at III, ii) Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent. - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at III, vii) Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at III, iv) Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Malcolm at IV,iii) It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.' - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii) Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii) Nay, but make haste, the better foot before. - William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (King John at IV, ii) Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i) 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. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything. - Statius (Publius Papanius Statius) He gets through too late who goes too fast. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims To do two things at once is to do neither. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. - Lord Alfred Tennyson Error is ever the sequence of haste. - Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. - John Wesley Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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