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Haste Quotes - Page 6

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

Ovid (1914). “Heroides and Amores”

The more haste, the less speed.

John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.384

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

Howard Raiffa, John Richardson, David Metcalfe (2002). “Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making”, p.93, Harvard University Press

Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.52, David R. Godine Publisher

Hurry up and learn patience.

"Type A's, hurry up and learn patience! Here's how" by Jennifer Nelson, www.today.com. June 16, 2011.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.324, NYU Press

Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.

Thomas Chatterton, Charles Bonnycastle Willcox (1842). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: With Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley Controversy, a Selection of His Letters, and Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.140

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

Matthew Henry, Philip Henry (1855). “The miscellaneous works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: containing in addition to those heretofore published, numerous sermons and papers, now first printed from the original manuscripts. With forty sermons on what Christ is made to believers, by Philip Henry; funeral sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry; funeral sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams”, p.309