Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.

Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.

Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.

Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?

To do two things at once is to do neither.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
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It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.'