You May Also Like / View all maxioms
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.]
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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?
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
