"More haste, less speed" - trying to do things too quickly and carelessly makes them take longer in the end. That was really anorak - I'm amazed that I can remember that far back. It could have been an exhortation for students to play "Dungeons and Dragons" rather than take drugs (amphetamines=speed) "Haste" was a very useful spell to give the character more attacks per combat round).
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#Speed haste saying free
Free thesaurus definition of ways of telling someone not to hurry from the Macmillan English Dictionary - a free English dictionary online with thesaurus and with pronunciation from Macmillan Education. The meaning that I gathered from it was that if you started your journey in good time, you wouldn't need to drive so fast. used for saying that important things often take a long time to do. This phrase was once used in road safety posters. 1387), 'In wikked haste is not profit.'.A longer version of the saying was quoted in John Ray's 'A Collection of English Proverbs' : 'Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the goodman and his wife.'.an amusing counterpart in a Chinese proverb on the futility of hurrying - 'A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork.'." From Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993). Speed implies rapidity of movement, operation, etc. 190 B.C.) by Jesus Ben Sirach, which contained the line, 'There is one that toileth and laboureth, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind.' Centuries later, Chaucer wrote in 'Canterbury Tales' (c. : : HASTE MAKES WASTE - "The notion of haste being counterproductive can be traced back at least to the apocryphal 'Book of Wisdom' (c. if you rush the job it will get finished later. : : : : if anyone could clarify this phrase for me I would be grateful, there's a WHOLE £3 relying on this!!!!
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: : : : surely a boss wouldn't want his workers to be hasty as opposed to speedy? : : : : having a bit of a disagreement with workmates over the phrase " less haste, more speed"(though it could be the other way around), my workmates say its "less speed, more haste" which to me doesn't make sense to want more haste, which means to rush a job,as opposed to speed which means to do a job fast! Synonyms for post-haste include hot, fast, quickly, briskly, hastily, quick, rapidly, swiftly, posthaste and snappily.
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In Reply to: Haste makes waste posted by Henry on July 12, 2003