Quotes with haste

  • You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.
  • We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
  • Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère 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 Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • William Congreve Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • William Shakespeare I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Augustus William Hare Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Abraham Cowley Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Herford Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Lord George Byron Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • T. Shadwell The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
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  • Arthur Henderson Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • John Wesley Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Barbara Jordan We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Oscar Wilde We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Vereen You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Aaron Hill Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
    And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
    Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
    Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
    Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
    In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
    No last decision till we meet again.
    Alzira (1736) Act IV, Scene 1.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Thomas Fuller Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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