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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
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?
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.'
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.