Aldo Leopold Quotes

Too great haste leads us to error.

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

Have I gone too far?

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

An opportunity missed once will present itself again, whereas a too hasty action can never be recalled.

He who decides in haste repents in haste.

We must not allow last year's mistakes to cloud our judgment today.

'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.

Every time I've rushed into something, that's usually when I have regrets.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

Haste is a poor counselor

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.