Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
Titus Livius
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Thomas Shadwell
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
Gustav Stresemann
He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
Elizabeth Bibesco
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Maria Mitchell
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson
If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.
Saint Vincent de Paul
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Matthew Arnold
God made time, but man made haste.
Irish Proverb
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Lord Chesterfield
It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
C.E.M. Joad
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
Robert James Waller
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.
A.A. Milne
I don’t know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
Max Eastman
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
St Francis de Sales
Waiting is one of life’s hardships.
Lemony Snicket
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
Turkish Proverb
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la Bruyere
He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.
Turkish Proverb
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn’t hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
Aeschylus
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm Gladwell
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
John Wesley
Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
Edward Whymper
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
Ethel Rosenberg
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve
Haste is of the Devil.
St. Jerome
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it’s off the better.
Horatio Nelson
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
Aaron Hill
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
William Godwin
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
Mark Lawrenson
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
Silius Italicus
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Oliver Herford
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Byron
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin