6 Quotes Tagged: haste

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The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Lewis Carroll, British author and scholar (1832–1898)

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Awake! arise! the hour is late!
Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and cannot wait,
And once departed come no more.
Awake! arise! the athlete's arm
Loses its strength by too much rest;
The fallow land, the untilled farm
Produces only weeds at best.

Haste denies all acts their dignity.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

Søren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)

humor bourgeoise haste hurry ridiculousness

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