Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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.
~By Mark Lawrenson ~
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.
~By Malcolm Gladwell ~
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
~By Horace ~
Hasten slowly.
~By Augustus ~
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
~By Diane Ackerman ~
Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
~By Sextus Propertius ~
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
~By Oliver Herford ~
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
~By Saint Augustine ~
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
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.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
~By William Congreve ~
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
~By Thomas Shadwell ~
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.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.
~By Jack Abramoff ~
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
~By Milarepa ~
The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.
~By Leon Foucault ~
I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.
~By Huston Smith ~
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
~By Albert Camus ~
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
~By William Godwin ~
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
~By Pierre Beaumarchais ~
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
~By Jane Byrne ~
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
~By Aeschylus ~
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.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
~By Aeschylus ~
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
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.
~By Augustine Birrell ~
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
~By Tacitus ~
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
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.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
~By Lord Byron ~
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.
~By Ethel Rosenberg ~
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
~By Aaron Hill ~
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.
~By Mike Love ~
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
~By Moliere ~
I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.
~By Bill Lipinski ~
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
~By William Godwin ~
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
~By Paul Allen ~
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
~By George Byron ~
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
~By Titus Livius ~
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.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
~By Silius Italicus ~
Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
~By Edward Whymper ~
I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.
~By Winthrop Rockefeller ~
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
~By Janos Bolyai ~
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
~By Ovid ~
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.
~By Jane Grey ~
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.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
~By Plato ~
Haste is of the Devil.
~By St. Jerome ~
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.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
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.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
~By Robert Southey ~
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