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?

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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

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

I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.

Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.

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.

Make haste slowly.

Make haste slowly.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

To do two things at once is to do neither.