Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
Attributed
“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.”
“6185. Marry in Haste, and Repent at Leisure;
It's good to marry late, or never.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : Marry'd in Haste, we oft repent at Leisure.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”
Act V, scene viii. Compare: "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure", William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act iii, scene 2
The Old Bachelor (1693)
A covering note sent with a manuscript submission, which was supposedly returned with the answer, "Put this with your other irons." The same story had much earlier been told about Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Piozzi in Kate Sanborn Home Pictures of English Poets (New York: Appleton, 1869) p. 215.
Misattributed
“Wilt thou pursue," she said, "or submit to aught that is shameful, when thou hast so many means of death and quick escape from a deed so wicked?”
<nowiki>'</nowiki>Tune sequeris' ait 'quidquam aut patiere pudendum
cum tibi tot mortes scelerisque brevissima tanti
effugia?
Source: Argonautica, Book VII, Lines 331–333
"Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/commontoad.html, Tribune (12 April 1946)
Context: Certainly we ought to be discontented, we ought not simply to find out ways of making the best of a bad job, and yet if we kill all pleasure in the actual process of life, what sort of future are we preparing for ourselves? If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?
Source: Untimely Meditations
“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”
Source: The Heart of the Matter
1960s, Cobo Center speech (1963)
