Slow Quotes
Posted by nabil medawar in Miscellaneous Quotes, Words of wisdom, tags: be slow, slow, slower, slowly
- A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.~ Kin Hubbard
- Age does not give you good sense, it only makes you go slowly.~ Finnish Proverb
- A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.~ Ernest Newman
- Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.~ Robert W. Service
- All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.~ Meher Baba
- A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.~ Ovid
- Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.~ Chinese Proverb
- Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.~ Benjamin Franklin
- Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.~ Socrates
- Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.~ The Holy Bible
- Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.~ Faith Baldwin
- Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.~ Charles L. Lucas
- Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.~ Sir Walter Scott
- Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.~ William Pitt Chatham
- Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.~ Marge Piercy
- Don’t be too bold, or you will burn your eyes; but don’t be too slow, or you will lose your share.~ Lithuanian Proverb
- Drive slow and enjoy the scenery — drive fast and join the scenery.~ Doug Horton
- Eating slowly is good for the stomach; plowing deeply is good for the fields.~ Vietnamese Proverb
- Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.~ Homer
- Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.~ Sir Richard Steele
- For fast-acting relief try slowing down.~ Lily Tomlin
- Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.~ Sydney J. Harris
- Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.~ Caesar Augustus
- Hasty questions require slow answers.~ Dutch Proverb
- He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.~ Author Unknown
- He who slowly gets angry will stay angry for a long time.~ Hungarian Proverb
- Honesty makes you rich, but she works slowly.~ German Proverb
- How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!~ Anne Frank
- I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.~ Irene Mayer Selznick
- If you are a fast talker at least think slowly. ~ Cretian Proverb
- If you are going a long way, go slowly. ~ Filipino Proverb
- Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying? ~ John Berger
- It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.~ Confucius
- It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.~ Erma Bombeck
- I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.~ Abraham Lincoln
- Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.~ Benjamin Franklin
- Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life is so short we must move very slowly.~ Thai Proverb
- Make haste slowly.~ Latin Proverb
- Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.~ William M. Kelly
- Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.~ Kahlil Gibran
- Not respecting yourself is the same as committing suicide at a slow rate.~ Author Unknown
- Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.~ Malcolm de Ghazal
- One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.~ Mahatma Gandhi
- Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.~ Christopher Hill
- People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.~ Ovid
- Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand oftime.~ Voltaire
- Perfectionism is slow death.~ Hugh Prather
- Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.~ Edwin H. Land
- Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.~ George Orwell
- Slow and steady wins the race.~ Aesop
- Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast — you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.~ Eddie Cantor
- Slow fires will smolder for a long time. ~ Thai Proverb
- Slow help is no help.~ Author Unknown
- Slow in word, swift in deed.~ Chinese Proverb
- Slowly but surely, the bird builds its nest.~ Dutch Proverb
- Slow motion gets you there faster.~ Hoagy Carmichael
- Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.~ Sun Tzu
- Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.~ John Wayne
- The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
- The moon moves slowly, but it gets across the town.~ Ghanaian Proverb
- The person who gives away his belongings will slowly become a beggar.~ Colombian Proverb
- The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.~ Lucille Ball
- The slower you go, the farther you will be. ~ Russian Proverb
- The slow horse reaches the mill.~ Irish Proverb
- The slow man with integrity will ultimately catch the swift one who has none.~ Author Unknown
- Time is too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.~ Henry Van Dyke
- To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.~ Pearl S. Buck
- We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.~ Ovid
- What you pursue, you don’t get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own way, comes to you.~ Rabbi Pinhas
- Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.~ Oliver Goldsmith
- Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.~ William Shakespeare
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.~ Aristotle
- Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.~ Joseph Addison
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