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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.]
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
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.'
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.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
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?
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]