Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 3 (p. 9)
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
Passons passons puisque tout passe
Je me retournerai souvent
Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse
Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent
"Cors de chasse" (Hunting Horns), line 9; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 159.
Alcools (1912)
Edward Rutledge (1749–1800) American politician
As quoted in John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina (1997) by James Haw; ISBN 0-820-31859-0), p. 233
“To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session.”
Yahia Lababidi (1973)
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
“If glory comes after death, I hurry not.”
Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.
Martial book Epigrammata
V, 10 (trans. Zachariah Rush).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
“A gentleman is never in a hurry.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian
To a friend who had told him that his particular drink was slow poison, as quoted in Robert Benchley (1955) by Nathaniel Benchley, ch. 1.
“There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara”
Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist
