Top 283 Haste Quotes & Sayings

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

All haste implies weakness.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

Haste, the great enemy.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

Haste is a poor counselor

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

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

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

Marry in haste, repent in leisure.

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Haste is always ungraceful.

Haste is of the Devil.

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

The more haste, the less speed.

Too great haste leads us to error.

A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

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

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

Like her [Mary], let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the Annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her. we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as she received Him. she went with haste to give Him to John. For us also. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today.

Make haste cautiously.

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

Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

Haste in every business brings failures.

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

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

Haste is blind and improvident.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Never make a promise in haste.

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