Haste Quotes
Haste makes waste.
- English proverb
Make haste slowly.
- Latin proverb
Haste is of the Devil.
- Saint Jerome
Quick enough, if good enough.
- Saint Jerome
Raw Haste, half sister to Delay.
- Lord Alfred
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God made time, but man made haste.
- Irish Proverb
Too great haste leads us to error.
- Jean Baptiste
Waiting is one of life’s hardships.
- Lemony Snicket
Error is ever the sequence of haste.
- Duke Wellington
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
- Charles Churchill
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
- Milarepa
Haste in every business brings failure.
- Herodotus
He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.
- Turkish Proverb
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
- Alexander Pope
To do two things at once is to do neither.
- Publilius Syrus
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
- Publilius Syrus
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
- William Shakespeare
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
- William J. Durant
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
- William Shakespeare
I shall marry in haste and repeat at leisure.
- James Branch Cabell
I’ll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
- Jean Baptiste
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
- Turkish Proverb
My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.
- Oliver Cromwell
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Modest wisdom plucks me from over credulous haste.
- William Shakespeare
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
- Al Bernstein
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
- John Wesley
Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.
- Statius
Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent.
- William Shakespeare
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
- William Shakespeare
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
- Henry David Thoreau
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
- Benjamin Franklin
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?
- Saint Jerome
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A.A. Milne
I go, I go, look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar’s bow.
- William Shakespeare
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
- Robert James Waller
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton


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