Top 10 Haste Makes Waste Quotes

Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.2567, Lulu Press, Inc

Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.

Cheshire Cat

Running, Haste Makes Waste, Dresses

"Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

Robert Herrick

Hands, Haste Makes Waste, Dry

Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

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

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Haste Makes Waste, Leisure

Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

Stephen King

Haste Makes Waste, Years, Play

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

Stephen King

Life Is Short, Haste Makes Waste, Years

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