WIST Quotations

Antrim, Minna -- Don’ts for Bachelors and Old Maids (1908)

Dave — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 19:36:44 +0000

Don’t rush madly into Matrimony. Those who do are as mad to rush out.

Minna Antrim (1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writer
Don’ts for Bachelors and Old Maids (1908)
(Source)

Kierkegaard, Soren -- Either/Or, Vol. 1 “Diapsalmata” (1843) [tr. Swenson (1959)]

Dave — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 01:43:39 +0000

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher, theologian
Either/Or, Vol. 1 “Diapsalmata” (1843) [tr. Swenson (1959)]

Shakespeare, William -- Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 101 (2.3.101) (c. 1594)

Dave — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:51:23 +0000

FRIAR LAWRENCE: Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 101 (2.3.101) (c. 1594)
(Source)

See Howell (1659).

Duncan, Sara Jeannette -- The Imperialist (1904)

Dave — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:12:17 +0000

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God’s sake begin at the end.

Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861-1922) Canadian author and journalist
The Imperialist (1904)

Augustus -- (Attributed)

Dave — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:01:16 +0000

Make haste slowly.

Augustus (63 BC - AD 14) Roman Emperor, statesman [Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus; b. Gaius Octavius]
(Attributed)

In Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (c. AD 121). Quoting a Greek proverb, according to Aulus Gellius.

Alt. trans.: "Hasten deliberately." See Howell (1659).

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 580 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 22 May 2014 12:10:34 +0000

Good & quickly seldome meete.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 580 (1640 ed.)
(Source)

Merton, Thomas -- “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence.

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) French-American religious and writer [a.k.a. Fr. M. Louis]
“Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 369 (1.4.369) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

ALBANY: Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 369 (1.4.369) (1606)
(Source)

Publilius Syrus -- Sententiae [Moral Sayings], # 557

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

Publilius Syrus (d. 42 BC) Assyrian slave, writer, philosopher [less correctly Publius Syrus]
Sententiae [Moral Sayings], # 557

See Howell (1659).