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

But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

— Juvenal

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

— John Wesley

Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They…

— William C. Bryant

I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to…

— Ovid

Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never paid dividends. Never wory about the fellow ahead of you. If you start racing to get ahaead of…

— Ray Bergman

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

— Vincent de Paul

My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

— Mason Cooley

Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.

— Edmund Spenser

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

— William Shakespeare

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

— Lord Byron

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

— William Shakespeare

Haste in every business brings failures.

— Herodotus

In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

— Laozi