Top 25 Haste Quotes of 144 - Page 2

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Food, Haste Makes Waste, Chinese

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

Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.

Robert Herrick

Haste, Noon, Rising

"To Daffodils" l. 1 (1648)

Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later.

Jesse Lacey

Waiting, Haste, Traitor

You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way.

Wallace D. Wattles

Waiting, Perception, Haste

Wallace D. Wattles (2010). “Wallace D. Wattles Trilogy: The Science of Being Well, the Science of Getting Rich & the Science of Being Great”, p.153, Cosimo, Inc.

One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of haste. One should act according to the way even in times of danger. It says further: 'When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.'

Takeda Nobushige

War, Haste, Way

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

Og Mandino

Art, Practice, Haste

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.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Thomas Shadwell

Fools Day, Haste, World

'A True Widow' (1679) act 3, sc. 1

Too great haste leads us to error.

Moliere

Errors, Haste

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 353-54, Sganarelle, I. 12, 1922.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

Men, Haste, Doe

"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Mistake, Victory, Haste

Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

Statius

Haste, Deliberation, Take Time

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Cassandra Clare

Mistress, Simile, Chaste

Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

Ben Vereen

Light, Godmother, Haste

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

H. L. Mencken

Devil, Haste, Slowness

When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

Dan Millman

Anxiety, Haste, Take A Deep Breath

Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.40, H J Kramer

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

William Shakespeare

Arrows, Haste, Looks

William Shakespeare (2011). “A Midsummer Night's Dream (Timeless Shakespeare)”, p.45, Saddleback Educational Publ

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Wendy Beckett

Art, Haste, Defense

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

Thomas Kyd

Tragedy, Haste, Ease