“Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.”
Source: The Artist's Way
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Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass
“2782. If you run after two Hares, you will catch neither.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog, and Poor Richard's Almanack ( 1737) : He that pursues two Hares at once, does not catch one and lets t'other go.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Time is fickle, and out of sight out of mind.
Than catch and hold while I may, fast bind fast find.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)
“Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.”
Cherry Adair (1951) South African-American writer
Source: Kiss and Tell