Quotes on haste
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
Proverb, Turkish
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Arnold, Matthew
He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.
Proverb, Turkish
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Kierkegaard, Soren
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.
Joad, C.E.M.
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
Wesley, John
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
Waller, Robert James
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Tzu, Lao
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Chesterfield, Earl of
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.
Eastman, Max
He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
Bibesco, Elizabeth
God made time, but man made haste.
Proverb, Irish
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.
Sales, St Francis de
If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.
Paul, Saint Vincent de
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.
Milne, A.A.