Haste Quotations | Page 2

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

Take time for all things.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

And up he got, in haste to ride, / But soon came down again.

So turning to his horse, he said, / I am in haste to dine; / 'Twas for your pleasure you came here, / You shall go back for mine.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.

Don't judge a book by its cover

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Never make a promise in haste.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.