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“Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Christian Morals (pt. I, sec. XXIII), (paraphrasing Caesar)
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“Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: To a Haggis
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“Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]”
Augustus Caesar Quotes Source: quoting a Greek proverb, according to Aullus Gellius (X, 11, 5)
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“The more haste, ever the worst speed.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: The Ghost (bk. IV, l. 1162)
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“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: She Stoops to Conquer (act I, sc. 2)
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“Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]”
Saint Jerome Quotes Source: Epistle (LXVI, par. 9), (Valler's ed.)
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“Haste is of the Devil.”
Saint Jerome Quotes Source: Epistle (LXVI, par. 9), (Valler's ed.)
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“What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?”
Saint Jerome Quotes Source: Epistle (LXVI, par. 9), (Valler's ed.)
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“Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Sganarelle (I, 12)
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“Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Sganarelle (I, 12)
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“On wings of wind came flying all abroad.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 208)
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“Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 208)
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“Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at III, vii)
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“Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (King John at IV, ii)
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“Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at III, iv)
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“I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at III, ii)
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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 Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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“Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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“He gets through too late who goes too fast.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
William Penn Adair Rogers Quotes |
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“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus Quotes |
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“Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.”
Milarepa Quotes |
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“Nothing is more vulgar than haste.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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