Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure


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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
UNKNOWN
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
PROVERB
Who acts in haste repents at leisure.
AESOP
Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Married in haste we may repent at leisure.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure
LORD BYRON
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
OLIVER HERFORD
Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
NOEL COWARD
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you’ve got it made.”
GROUCHO MARX
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GROUCHO MARX
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
NOëL COWARD
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
NOEL COWARD
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tai...
HONORé DE BALZAC
Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full...
THOMAS FULLER
I like honesty and fair play.
MARCUS GARVEY
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GROUCHO MARX
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
NOEL COWARD
The spoken word cannot be recalled but the written word leaves evidence.
QUINN STILLETTO
Faith can not function in an atmosphere of deceit,but of reality.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no le...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
LEO TOLSTOY
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less i...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN
The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
N.B.: From this quote...
BIBLE
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dis...
KAPIL DEV
Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
BROOKE SHIELDS
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is a ...
GROUCHO MARX
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd kn...
KRISTIN CASHORE
A drop of deceit poisons an ocean of truth
STEVE JACOB
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Honesty is very sexy.
VALERIE BERTINELLI
Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb
CHINESE PROVERB
Honesty, without gentleness, is nothing but brutality ... Gentleness, without honesty, is nothing bu...
FR. EMMERICH VOGT
Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as ...
WALLACE D. WATTLES
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...
JOSH BILLINGS
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a c...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion year...
MARK TWAIN
We can now see a pattern of coordination and deceit.
BRIAN FLAHERTY
Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not att...
ROBERT HERRICK
That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.
DEYTH BANGER
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; / When he speaketh fair, ...
BIBLE
Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.
RICHARD JENI
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
BIBLE
"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.
ROSE N. FRANZBLAU
The mental and physical reactions to what are perceived as labor and leisure are distinctively diffe...
JONATHAN CHEN
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
AESCHYLUS
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawf...
JOSH BILLINGS
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
KURDISH PROVERB
It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone
OLIVER CROMWELL
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Without haste, but without rest.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it...
RASHEED OGUNLARU
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL
Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW
Haste is good only in catching fleas.
ALLA YAROSHINSKAYA
For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of al...
ANNE LAMOTT
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
BIBLE
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY
Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
But I can please God
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confront...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
The physical temple is a temple of deceit,but the heart temple is the only genuine temple.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Courtship is a period we only deceive ourselves,but marriage is the period we realise the deceit.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
UNKNOWN
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
THOMAS SHADWELL
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world
THOMAS SHADWELL
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
Honesty is something you can't wear out.
WAYLON JENNINGS
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY
Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.
DEBRA MESSING
This is always a fear of ours in our family. Always a fear. There's nothing you can do but wait.
AMBER HELMS
I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on so...
IRA SACHS
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
STEVE LANDESBERG
Ample make this bed. / Make this bed with awe; / In it wait till judgement break / Excellent and fai...
EMILY DICKINSON
When there is a deceit, there is no religion
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK
Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
GEORGE HARRISON
Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpl...
KIKI ARCHER
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
SAADI
Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.
ANON.

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