A Quote by Mason Cooley

Publish in haste and repent at leisure. — © Mason Cooley
Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

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Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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