Quotes
Quotes about Haste
If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?
The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle That's curded by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!
Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her As chaste as unsunned snow.
Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained its noone. . . . . We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you or anything.
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream,-- All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is ... by teaching every man to think for himself.
Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you.
His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis always left behind.
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
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.
'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.' And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.
Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
Hasten deliberately. [Lat., Festina lente.]
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Haste is of the Devil.
Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
