Haste maketh waste.

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.

Good to be merry and wise.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

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.'

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.