First Week, First Day.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“Whatever is done well enough is done quickly enough.”
Sat celeriter fieri, quidquid fiat satis bene.
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
In Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, II., 25.
Cf. Shakespeare, Macbeth I. vii, "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly".
“What is done in love is done well.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
New England Reformers
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Letter (3 July 1956); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Ananda Mahidol (1925–1946) eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII
Source: "Speech while conferring degree certificates to the graduating students of Chulalongkorn University" http://www.memohall.chula.ac.th/article/%E0%B8%81/ (13 April 1946)
“All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Third Revelation, Chapter 11
“Well, nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Address to fleet officers (August 11, 1917), quoted in Joseph P. Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson As I Know Him (1921), p. 297 https://books.google.com/books?id=f3xw1nfcn14C&vq=%22Nothing%20was%20ever%22&pg=PA297#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1910s
“Well done is better than well said.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Poor Richard's Almanack (1737)
