Haste famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
-- Aaron Hill -
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
-- Aeschylus -
Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.
-- Al-Tabarani -
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
-- Alexander Pope -
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
-- Alphonse Karr -
When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.
-- Ben Vereen -
Do not make too much haste on one's road.
-- Chilon of Sparta -
Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.
-- Colin Fletcher -
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
-- Dallas Willard -
Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.
-- Daniel Guerin -
In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.
-- Dennis DeYoung -
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.
-- Edward Whymper -
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.
-- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky -
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
-- Gelett Burgess -
My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.
-- Gene Ween -
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 -
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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 -
The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.
-- Howard Raiffa -
A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.
-- James M. Cain -
Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later.
-- Jesse Lacey -
When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty
-- Joan Halifax -
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
-- John Heywood -
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
-- John Wesley -
The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.
-- Juan Ramon Jimenez -
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
-- Livy -
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
-- Lucretius -
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
-- May Sarton -
If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.
-- Michael Dolan -
My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.
-- Oliver Cromwell -
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.
-- Ovid -
An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.
-- Pietro Metastasio -
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus -
Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel
-- Rachel Caine -
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.
-- Robert Breault -
No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.
-- Robert Breault -
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.
-- Robert Breault -
Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.
-- Robert E. Murray -
Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.
-- Robert Herrick -
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
-- Saadi -
Make haste†Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.
-- Shannon Hale -
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
-- Silius Italicus -
Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.
-- Statius -
Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.
-- Statius -
One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of haste. One should act according to the way even in times of danger. It says further: 'When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.'
-- Takeda Nobushige -
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -
Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.
-- Thomas Chatterton -
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.
-- Thomas Merton -
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
-- Thomas Shadwell -
My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day.
-- Walter Russell -
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
-- William Godwin -
For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.
-- William Somervile -
The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.
-- Zachary Taylor -
When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
-- David Malpass
