Famous quotes containing the word haste:
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“O fy gar ride, and fy gar rin,
And haste ye find these traitors again;
For shes be burnt and hes be slain,
The wearifu gaberlunzie man.”
—Unknown. The Gaberlunzie Man (l. 4952)
“Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when bodys works expired:”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)