Haste Quotes

Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

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

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

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

Haste is blind and improvident.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

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

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

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

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.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Good and quickly seldom meet.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

All haste implies weakness.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.