hurry quotes

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparklingThames: Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife Fly hence, our contact fear!

- Matthew Arnold
  Poems:  A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.201^6.

Festina lente. Hurry slowly.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Aurelius
Quoted in Suetonius  Augustus, section 25 (originally quoted in Greek, but better known in the Latin form).

   So who's in a hurry?

- Robert Charles Benchley
On being told that the particular drink he was drinking was slow poison. Quoted in Nathaniel Benchley Robert Benchley (1955), ch.1.

The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  Frederic Henry.  A Farewell to  Arms, ch.34.

Socialists are Liberals in a hurry.

- Louis Saint Laurent
Attributed. Quoted in Dale C Thomson Louis St. Laurent (1967). French composer, music critic, pianist andorganist. Founder of the Socie   te    Nationale de Musique in 1871,  he composed widely and prolifically.

These people in the senseless hurry of their idle lives do not read books, they merely snatch a glance at them that they may talk about them. And even if this were not so, never forget what I believe was observed by Coleridge, that every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

-William Wordsworth
  Letter to Lady Beaumont, 21 May, on his Poems inTwo Volumes (1807). In The Letters ofWilliamWordsworth edited by Alan G Hill (1984).