Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

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?

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.

Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

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

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

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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

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