fast quotes

To be human at all† we must stand fast a littleeven at the risk of being heroes.

- Robert Oxton Bolt
  Thomas More.  A Man for All Seasons.

AsTammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious: The piper loud and louder blew; The dancers quick and quicker flew.

- Robert Burns
  'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.

- George Crabbe
  The Newspaper, l.158.

They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

-Thomas Osborne Davis
  The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. Flanagan theirheads, nomatterhowcharming a blufftheymay put up.

- Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop Flanagan
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990). 1934  Tender is the Night, bk.3, ch.12. English  songwriting  team,  who  made  their  name  with  At  the Drop of a Hat (1956).

   He that drinks fast, pays slow.

- Benjamin Franklin
  Poor Richard's  Almanack,  Aug.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, IsLove, forgive us!cinders, ashes, dust; Love in a palace is perhaps at last More grievous torment than a hermit's fast.

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Lamia', pt.2, l.1^4.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible.From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

-JesseJames Cleveland Owens
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!

- Louis Saint Laurent
Of conductors. Quoted in SirThomas Beecham A Mingled Chime (1944).