Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

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

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

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Make haste slowly.

Make haste slowly.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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.]

I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce read more

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.