HASTE

Related Subjects: Patience, Promptness, Speed

1. Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner."—BACON, Apothegms
   

2. He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.—ELIZABETH A. BIBESCO, Balloons

3. Ther nis no werkman, whatsoever he be,
   That may bothe werke wel and hastily;
   This wol be doon at leyser parfitly.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

4. No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.—WILL DURANT, The Life of Greece
   

5. A hasty man never wants woe.—Proverb
   

6. Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the goodman and his wife.—Proverb
   

7. Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

8. He gets through too late who goes too fast.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

9. This sweaty haste
   Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

10. Make haste; the better foot before.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

11. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

12. Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

13. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.—JOHN WESLEY, Letters