slow quotes

Nature's way of telling you to slow down.

-Anonymous
Of death. Quoted in Newsweek, 25  Apr1960.

But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. 88

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 4:10.

   He that drinks fast, pays slow.

- Benjamin Franklin
  Poor Richard's  Almanack,  Aug.

It may be life, but ain't it slow? 397

- SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
  'It May be Life'.

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

- George Herbert
Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously,1651).

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

-Wilfred Owen
  'Anthem for Doomed Youth'.

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).

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last.

- Sir Walter Scott
  Marmion, canto 2, stanza 30.

   Ah! The clock is always slow; It is later than you think.

- Robert William Service
Ballads of a Bohemian,'It Is LaterThanYouThink'.