Posts Tagged “be quick”
- Act quickly, think slowly.~ Greek Proverb
- A good fire makes a quick cook.~ Dutch Proverb
- A miser and a liar bargain quickly.~ Greek Proverb
- An eye and a friend are quickly hurt.~ Ethiopian Proverb
- A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.~ Katharine Hepburn
- A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.~ Marcus T. Cicero
- A woman’s heart dries quicker than her tears.~ French Proverb
- Be quick to follow up an advantage.~ New Zealander Proverb
- Be quick to learn and wise to know. ~ George Burns
- Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.~ John Dryden
- Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them. ~ Bettina Ballard
- Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.~ Mary Bateson
- Go quickly but don’t fall off my step.~ Yiddish Proverb
- He that gives quickly gives twice.~ Miguel De Cervantes
- He who is quick to borrow, is slow to pay.~ German Proverb
- He who knows little quickly tells it.~ Italian Proverb
- In bad things be slow; in good things be quick.~ Afghan Proverb
- Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.~ Francis Beaumont
- I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.~ Pierre De Beaumarchais
- Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more.~ Malagasy Proverb
- Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.~ Julius Caesar
- Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. ~ Max Beerbohm
- Nothing dries quicker than tears.~ Italian Proverb
- One-half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.~ Josh Billings
- On your own donkey it is quicker than on someone else’s racehorse.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
- People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.~ Jeremy Collier
- Quick and well seldom go together.~ Danish Proverb
- Quickly done; long repented.~ Dutch Proverb
- Quick to believe is quickly deceived.~ Serbian Proverb
- Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.~ Traditional Proverb
- Spending is quick, earning is slow.~ Russian Proverb
- The best act of generosity is that which is quickly done. ~ Arabian Proverb
- The happier the time, the more quickly it passes.~ Latin Proverb
- The horse may run quickly, but it can’t escape its own tail.~ Russian Proverb
- There are three things that have to be done quickly: burying the dead, opening the door for a stranger, and fixing your daughter’s wedding.~ Iranian Proverb
- The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe. ~ Aristophanes
- Three hairs are quickly combed.~ Walloon Proverb
- To a quick question give a slow answer. ~ Italian Proverb
- To win a war quickly takes long preparation. ~ Latin Proverb
- Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.~ Traditional Proverb
- What is not urgent must be done quickly in order to take care of the urgent things calmly.~ Chinese Proverb
- Whoever drinks on credit gets drunk more quickly.~ Armenian Proverb
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.~ Aristotle
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