Top Haste Quotes
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
William Godwin
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
Silius Italicus
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
Edward Whymper 
Gustav Stresemann 
William Congreve 
Plato 
Maria Mitchell 
Barbara Jordan 
Tacitus 
St. Jerome 
George Byron All Haste Quotes
Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
Edward Whymper 
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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.
Gustav Stresemann
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The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Maria Mitchell
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Byron
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve
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At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
Ethel Rosenberg
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Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Horatio Nelson
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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