HASTE QUOTES

quotations about haste

Nay, but make haste; the better foot before.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King John

Tags: William Shakespeare


Haste maketh waste.

JOHN HEYWOOD

Proverbs

Tags: John Heywood


Haste makes work which caution prevents.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

Tags: William Penn


Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy -- to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Selections from the writings of Kierkegaard

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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

Tags: William Shakespeare


This is what happens when you hurry through a maze; the faster you go, the worse you are entangled.

SENECA THE YOUNGER

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium

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Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

JOHN WESLEY

letter to a member of the Society, December 10, 1777

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Lightning shall be slow to my hasting.

E. R. EDDISON

The Worm Ouroboros


Precipitate haste leads to injustice.

EURIPIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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haste usually goes hand in hand with folly.

THUCYDIDES

History of the Peloponnesian War

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Parcel out your life wisely, not confusedly in the rush of events, but with foresight and judgment.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

Oraculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia

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Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

MAX EHRMANN

"Desiderata"


My mistake has too often been that of too much haste. But it is not the people's way to hurry, nor is it God's way either. Hurry means worry, and worry effectually drives the peace of God from the heart.

JAMES O. FRASER

attributed, Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser


Hasty counsels are followed by repentance.

LABERIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

ANONYMOUS

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Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

Tags: William Shakespeare


Haste and rashness are storms and tempest, breaking and wreaking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven.

THOMAS FULLER

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The more haste, ever the worst speed.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

The Ghost

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Hastiness is improvident and blind.

LIVY

attributed, Day's Collacon


Hurry slowly.

AUGUSTUS

attributed, "Divus Augustus", Lives of the Caesars