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Haste Quotes


These are some of the best 'Haste' quotations and sayings.


Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. - Take time for all things. - Great haste makes great waste.

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.

Haste makes waste.

Haste trips its own heels, and fetters and stops itself.

Haste usually turns upon being late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of always being ten minutes too early.

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of despatch and skill, but neither of them ever learns the master's trade.

Hurry is only good for catching flies.

Make haste slowly.

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

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Take time for all things.

The longest way round is the shortest way home.

The more haste ever the worse speed.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. - Haste and hurry are very different things.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.