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.'

Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

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.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

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

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

To do two things at once is to do neither.

To do two things at once is to do neither.