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Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.
View quotes by William Pitt

Skill comes so slow, and life so fast doth fly, We learn so little and forget so much. (Nosce Teipsum)
View quotes by Sir John Davies

Slow and steady wins the race.
'The hare and the tortoise'
View quotes by Robert Lloyd

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 quotes by G H Lewes

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
View quotes by Moliere

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
View quotes by John Wayne

Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine. [Financial Times]
View quotes by Roger Scruton

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy
View quotes by John F Kennedy

Lasting accomplishment... Is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self discipline.
View quotes by Helen Hayes

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
View quotes by Pearl Buck

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
View quotes by Mary Sarton

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
View quotes by Socrates

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
View quotes by J B Priestley

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
View quotes by Louis Nizer

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
View quotes by Francis Quarles

It's been very slow and dull day, but it hasn't been boring. It's been a good, entertaining day's cricket.

View quotes by Tony Benneworth

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. - 'The Hungarian Horntail,' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
View quotes by Harry Potter

Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.
View quotes by Goran Visnjic

I had a pretty slow start I would say. [On struggling to beat Safina in the Aus Open 2005]
View quotes by Amelie Mauresmo



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