Haste Quotes - Page 5

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

All haste implies weakness.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.

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.

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.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!