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Quotations about Haste and Hurry
You folks happen to know what the main trouble with this country is?... The main trouble is there are too many people who don't know where they're going and they want to get there too fast. ~The Bishop's Wife, 1947, written by R. Nathan, R.E. Sherwood, L. Bercovici, B. Wilder, and C. Brackett
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~Søren Kierkegaard, translated by David F. Swenson, 1944
And to-day all things are done in haste — not always wisely nor well, not always in the most dignified manner, not always with due regard to the proper relations of time and place and action, but always and everywhere done quickly... The mail becomes weekly, then
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down. ~Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife, tweet, 2009
I received a note from Lady Summerfield summoning me in hot haste to come to her house. ~Henrietta Vaughan Palmer Stannard, The Magic Wheel, 1901
No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear,
And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;
Before this strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims,
Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife...
~Matthew Arnold, "The Scholar-Gipsy," 1853
Why do we hurry? For they who hurry through life are hastening the tomb. It doesn't pay. Take time sufficient for everything you do. Take time to eat properly. Take time to rest and play. Take time for politeness. Take time to pass over the road of life — and if you fail and fall among the rocks, arise again and struggle on; let not hurry nor worry divert you from your path. Study your nature. You will be healthy, happy and successful. ~Lilla D. Windsor, "Don't Hurry," Health Magazine, October 1899 [a little altered
I come from labyrinths of confusion into a path across a meadow.
I ease the stress, I come to the ministry of the trees.
I cease from hurrying and come with the leisure of flowers, lingering with the loitering grasses.
I come deliberately, like buds that do not clamor to open, like fruits that do not hasten to fall.
~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "At the Roots of Grasses: III," At the Roots of Grasses, 1923
We hurry over the road that stretches from childhood to maturity only to discover that its most beautiful scenery escaped our vision. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. ~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, 1749
You do not at all understand my manner of life. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. ~John Wesley, 1777
HASTE Our leading waste manufacturer. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Altogether New Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz, 1914
It's a quarter after five on a Sunday morning... The world is so asleep and deserted at this hour... There's a lot of room and quiet, at this time of day. That's one reason I get up early... Another reason I get up early is because there is less of a sense of pressure before the rest of the world is up and stirring. You can feel the slow rhythms of time and the stars and you can see the day begin. The days are just as long as they were 10 million years ago. If they seem short it is because man has tried to pack them so full of hurry. I don't know where we are hurrying, but haste has become habitual. ~Hal Borland, Hill Country Harvest, 1967
I have seldom a minute to spare; my life is one big rush. ~F. W. Robinson, The Wrong That Was Done, 1891
Remember the great adversary of art or anything else is a hurried life. As they used to teach us in World War Two, the eight enemies of survival are fear, pain, cold, thirst, hunger, fatigue, boredom, and loneliness. Haste is the ninth. ~Robert James Waller, Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, 1996
What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving. ~Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography, translated from German by Charles T. Brooks, 1865
Not so fast, if you please. ~John Neal, "Phantasmagoria," 1848
Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
And to this day I wish I had lingered a week or so.... But we stupid mortals, or most of us, are always in haste to reach somewhere else, forgetting that the zest is in the journey and not in the destination. ~Ralph D. Paine, Roads of Adventure
There would be more miracles in America if the people were not in too great a hurry to wait. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
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