WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:29:49 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg saving time – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Rogers, Will -- Column (1930-04-28), “Daily Telegram: Will Rogers Sees No Value in All the Time We Save” https://wist.info/rogers-will/70056/ https://wist.info/rogers-will/70056/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:25:44 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=70056 Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.


Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist
Column (1930-04-28), “Daily Telegram: Will Rogers Sees No Value in All the Time We Save”

Written while in Beverly Hills. Collected in The Autobiography of Will Rogers, ch. 15 (1949) [ed. Donald Day]. ]]> https://wist.info/rogers-will/70056/feed/ 0 70056 Howell, James -- Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs”” (1659) [compiler] https://wist.info/howell-james/12543/ https://wist.info/howell-james/12543/#respond Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:57:01 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=12543 The more haste, the worse speed.


James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs”” (1659) [compiler]

A few pages later, Howell quotes John Heywood (1546) the analogous "The more haste, the less speed."

See also See Augustus and Publilius Syrus. ]]> https://wist.info/howell-james/12543/feed/ 0 12543