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What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?
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.]
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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.
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.
