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Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
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It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.'
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.