Hasty Quotes

“A hasty dog always burns his mouth. [192]”

— Sol T. Plaatje

Hasty decisions are ones I try to avoid.

— Layla Kayleigh

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

— Publilius Syrus

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

— Robert Frost

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

— Publilius Syrus

I don't believe in hasty marriages.

— Anna Held

“The hasty stroke oft goes astray.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

— Moliere

“...(for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt)...”

— Virginia Woolf

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

— Woodrow Wilson

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

— Edmund Spenser

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

— William Penn

“You can be desperate but do not be hasty. No city is built in a day”

— Justice Okafor

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

— Gerhard Schroder

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

— Robert Jordan

I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.

— Joel Barlow

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often…

— Olympia Brown

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

— Paul Theroux

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical,…

— Vincent de Paul

“said a hasty prayer and headed for a wooden bench, there to recover a composure more in keeping with what I was,…

— Roberto Bolaño

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Hasty opinion too often points the wrong way, and then affection for one's own opinion binds up the intellect.”

— Dante Alighieri

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty…

— Sun Tzu

I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and…

— John Muir

It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating…

— John A. Macdonald

Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on…

— Mae West

A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of…

— John Adams

Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty…

— Bret Harte

I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about…

— Judy LaMarsh

When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You,…

— Paolo Nutini

Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“But there is no sole person for another's heart. Souls cannot be broken and then completed by another. That's not healthy, nor…

— Leanna Renee Hieber

Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried…

— Pope Benedict XVI

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk…

— Henry David Thoreau

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any…

— Woodrow Wilson

Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

— William Shakespeare

Nature's hasty conscience.

— Maria Edgeworth