Slow - Quotes and Proverbs

No hurry. Here are some proverbs and quotes about slow and slowly.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

A watched pot never boils.

If you wait anxiously for something, it seems to take a long time.

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

Listen carefully to others, but think before giving your own opinion.

Even though you tread slowly over your rice field it will become muddy.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.

J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Quoted: Malfoy

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln

If you are a fast talker at least think slowly.

If you don't know the way, walk slowly.

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

Confucius

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Craig Bruce

Life is so short we must move very slowly.

Make haste slowly.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

William Allingham

Slow as molasses in January.

Slow change is not no change.

Hans Rosling
Source: Factfulness

Slow help is no help.

Slow, gradual, cumulative natural selection is the ultimate explanation for our existence.

Richard Dawkins

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

John Wayne

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

Henry Beston

The moon moves slowly, but it gets across the town.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Molière

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle