Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.

Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.

Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.

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.'

Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]

Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]

Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]

Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying read more

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.