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APAD: Haste makes waste

移花接木 2025-04-01 05:04:10 ( reads)

Haste makes waste

This proverb means that if you try to do things too quickly, you are more likely to make mistakes or overlook important details, which can ultimately lead to wasting time, money, or resources. It is often used to encourage people to take their time and be thorough in their work. Rushing or doing things too quickly often leads to mistakes and wasted effort, time, or resources.

The phrase warns against rushing tasks or making decisions too quickly.


The idea that haste is counterproductive originated in antiquity and is first seen in print in the apocryphal Book of Wisdom, c. 190 BCE: “There is one that toilet and laboureth, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind.” 
One of Benjamin Franklin's most notable quotes reads: "Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."


 

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最西边的岛上

2025-04-01 06:33:42

NoHaste noWaste. "Can February march? No, but April may.";-)

移花接木

2025-04-01 09:02:15

May April March

硅谷居士

2025-04-01 07:27:52

中文:心急吃不了热豆腐?慢功出细活?欲速则不达?

移花接木

2025-04-01 09:09:41

seconded

7grizzly

2025-04-01 08:46:07

or something of poor taste :-)

最西边的岛上

2025-04-01 08:49:23

on April Fools’ day :-)

7grizzly

2025-04-01 08:51:53

or any other day

移花接木

2025-04-01 09:11:33

waste taste poorly

7grizzly

2025-04-01 15:52:48

such as the caste,

7grizzly

2025-04-01 15:54:05

smelling some awful paste

7grizzly

2025-04-01 15:55:12

that sticks like certain body waste,

7grizzly

2025-04-01 15:59:30

a crap taken in haste.

最西边的岛上

2025-04-01 16:03:37

any more 4 me 2 upvote? ;-)))

7grizzly

2025-04-01 16:09:25

Thanks. It circles back from there to haste makes waste.

妖妖灵

2025-04-01 09:16:54

Haste tastes waste~

移花接木

2025-04-01 15:44:31

还有多少-aste可以串起来