Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. 'Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.'

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to …

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Haste maketh waste.

As in his public affairs, so in his private life the American rarely prepares himself for the future. He is wholly unwilling to have anything transmitted to hi…

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