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| A prudent haste is wisdom’s leisure. | 1 |
| As the man said to him on the tree top, make no more haste when you come down than when you went up. | 2 |
| Haste comes late in the end. German. | 3 |
| Haste comes not along. German. | 4 |
| Haste is of the devil. Koran. | 5 |
| Haste is slow. (Festinatio tarda est.) Latin. | 6 |
| Haste often brings shame. German. | 7 |
| Haste makes waste and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife. | 8 |
| Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. Seneca. | 9 |
| Hasten at leisure. (Festina lente.) | 10 |
| Hastiness is the beginning of wrath and its end repentance. Dutch. | 11 |
| Hasty climbers have sudden falls. | 12 |
| Hasty councils are seldom prosperous. Coke. | 13 |
| Hasty gamesters oversee themselves. | 14 |
| Hasty people will never make good midwives. | 15 |
| He hastens to repentance who hastily judges. Publius Syrus. | 16 |
| He that goes too hastily along often stumbles on a fair road. French. | 17 |
| He that is hasty fishes in an empty pond. | 18 |
| He that is hasty to give credit is light minded. Bible. | 19 |
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes,
With eager feeding food will choke the feeder. Shakespeare. | 20 |
| He who pours water hastily into a bottle spills more than goes in. Spanish. | 21 |
| In a hurry is error. Chinese. | 22 |
| Make no more haste than good speed. | 23 |
| Most haste—worst speed. | 24 |
| Naething in haste but gripping o’ fleas. | 25 |
| Nothing is ever well done in a hurry except fleeing from the plague, or from quarrels, and catching fleas. Italian. | 26 |
| Nothing is well ordered that is hasty or precipitate. Seneca. | 27 |
| Nothing should be done in a hurry excepting catching fleas. German. | 28 |
Of hasty counsel take good heed,
For haste is very rarely speed. Dutch. | 29 |
| One hates to see men do important things in a hurry. Warren. | 30 |
| Rash haste makes waste. | 31 |
| Seeth thou a man that is hasty in his word, there is more hope of a fool than of him. Bible. | 32 |
| Slow haste goes best. | 33 |
| The more haste the less (or worse) speed. French, Spanish, German, Dutch. | 34 |
| “The more haste the worse speed,” quoth the tailor to his long thread. | 35 |
| The more haste we make in a wrong direction the further we are from our journey’s end. | 36 |
| We do in haste and repent at leisure. German. | 37 |
| We have not yet saddled and are already mounted. Spanish, Portuguese. | 38 |
| What is done hastily is not done well. Chinese. | 39 |
| What is the best thing to do in a hurry? Nothing. Punch. | 40 |
| Who hastens in the beginning seldom goes far. German. | 41 |
| Who hastens too much often remains behind. German. | 42 |
| Whoever is in a hurry showeth the thing he is about is too big for him. Chesterfield. | 43 |
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