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Haste Makes Waste Quotes

This collection holds 10 haste makes waste quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Benjamin Franklin, Stephen King and Jane Austen.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States

Take time for all things.

Jane Austen / Novelist

Too many cooks spoil the broth

George Eliot / Novelist

Don't judge a book by its cover

Henry David Thoreau / Author

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Jamie Lee Curtis / Actress

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

Cheshire Cat

Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.

Robert Herrick / Poet

Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

Stephen King / Author

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Stephen King / Author

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

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