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Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
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.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.