"Make haste slowly." - Caesar Augustus, quoted by Suetonius in Lives of the Caesars

"There's no workman, whatsoever he be,
That may both work well and hastily."
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised." - Will Durant, The Life of Greece

"If they try to rush me, I always say, 'I've only got one other speed - and it's slower.'" - Glenn Ford

"If it were done when `tis done, then `twere well
It were done quickly."
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him." - LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters to His Son

"Nothing is more vulgar than haste." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life

"Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions." - STEPHEN LEACOCK, Nonsense Novels

"The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world." - THOMAS SHADWELL, A True Widow

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Lincoln, Abraham