Quotation Explorer - 'Haste'

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
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. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I came in haste with cursing breath,And heart of hardest steel;But when I saw thee cold in death,I felt as man should feel.For when I look upon that face,That cold, unheeding, frigid brown,Where neither rage nor fear has place,By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now! - Alfred Tennyson
Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. - Victor Hugo
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. - Lord Byron
Dissociated, I follow this body in its reckless haste. - Taylor Patton
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. - Jean de La Bruyère
Haste in every business brings failures. - Herodotus
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. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. - Soren Kierkegaard
The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed. - Michael R. Phillips
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. - Tacitus
why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words? - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In your haste you walk far too fast. And in doing so you often leave your soul behind. - Anonymous
Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side (meaning this life). - Lou Andreas-Salomé
Haste is good only in catching fleas. - Alla Yaroshinskaya
Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way. - Sir Francis Bacon
Don’t rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. - Soren Kierkegaard
The slowest kiss makes too much haste. - Thomas Middleton
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste. - Saadi سعدی
We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling. - Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Don't just Hurry, don't just Haste. Don't just Worry, don't just Waste. Life is a Treasure, Enjoy the Pleasure.- - RVM
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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