Quotes & Sayings About Haste Makes Waste

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. — Henry David Thoreau

Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run. — Cheshire Cat

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. — Malcolm Gladwell

Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
'T is haste
Makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. — Robert Herrick

Calm. Haste makes waste. Life is not an emergency. Life is brief and it is fleeting but it is not an emergency. — Ann Voskamp

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. — Henry David Thoreau

Haste makes waste. — Benjamin Franklin

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Waste makes haste. — Angela Khristin Brown

Take time for all things. — Benjamin Franklin

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight ... I know it's not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn't produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell. — Stephen King

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. — Benjamin Franklin