Quotes on Haste

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste_x000D_ _x000D_ Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-_x000D_ _x000D_ And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd_x000D_ _x000D_ The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!

At once, good night-_x000D_ _x000D_ Stand not upon the order of your going,_x000D_ _x000D_ But go at once.

Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.