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English[edit]
Proverb[edit]
haste makes waste
- Being too hasty leads to wasteful mistakes.
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Translations[edit]
being too hasty leads to wasteful mistakes
- Arabic: فِي الْعَجَلَة اَلنَّدَامَة (fī l-ʕajala n-nadāma), العجلة من الشيطان
- Libyan Arabic: استعجل تبطى وتاكل خبطة
- Azerbaijani: tələsən təndirə düşər
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 欲速則不達／欲速则不达 (zh) (yù sù zé bù dá)
- Czech: práce kvapná málo platná (cs), práce kvapná, málo platná (cs)
- Danish: hastværk er lastværk (da)
- Dutch: haastige spoed is zelden goed (nl), haast en spoed is zelden goed
- Finnish: ei ole hoppu hyväksi, eikä kiire kunniaksi
- French: hâte rend déchets
- Galician: as présas nunca son boas
- Georgian: მოჩქარეს მოუგვიანდესო (močkares mougviandeso)
- German: gut Ding will Weile haben (de) (literally “a good thing needs time”), Eile mit Weile (literally “hurry at leisure”), nichts mit Hast als Flöhe fangen (literally “[do] nothing with haste but catching flees”), in Eile gefreit, in Muße bereut (literally “married with haste, regretted at leisure”)
- Hindi: जल्दी काम शैतान का (jaldī kām śaitān kā)
- Hungarian: lassan járj, tovább érsz (hu), hamar munka ritkán jó
- Italian: la gatta frettolosa fece i gattini ciechi
- Japanese: 急がば回れ (ja), 果報は寝て待て, 急いては事を仕損じる
- Macedonian: брза кучка слепи кучиња раѓа (brza kučka slepi kučinja raǵa)
- Mongolian: яарвал даарна ядарвал өлсөнө (jaarval daarna jadarval ölsönö)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hastverk er lastverk
- Nynorsk: hastverk er lastverk
- Persian: عجله کار شیطان است ('ajale kâr-e šeytân ast)
- Polish: co nagle, to po diable (pl), gdy się człowiek spieszy, to się diabeł cieszy (pl)
- Portuguese: a pressa é a inimiga da perfeição
- Romanian: graba strică treaba
- Russian: поспеши́шь — люде́й насмеши́шь (pospešíšʹ — ljudéj nasmešíšʹ)
- Spanish: las prisas no son buenas consejeras
- Swahili: haraka haraka haina baraka
- Turkish: acele işe şeytan karışır
- Vilamovian: ny moh nist cy byhend, do der daj at ny śent
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References[edit]
- Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 128.
