Slow Quotes

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. (Abraham Lincoln)
Slow but steady wins the race. View quote
Aesop
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. View quote
Henry van Dyke
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. View quote
Molière
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. View quote
George Henry Lewes
How slow life is, how violent hope is. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. View quote
Georg Büchner
The march of the human mind is slow. View quote
Edmund Burke
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. View quote
Joseph Addison
Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. (George Orwell)
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. View quote
Jane Austen
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. View quote
Winston Churchill
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. View quote
Béla Bartók
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us. View quote
Joseph Addison
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. View quote
George Washington
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient, comes, and lo is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable. View quote
Robert Browning
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. (Oliver Goldsmith)
It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
How slow the shadow creeps but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast How fast. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. View quote
John Steinbeck