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Is the saying 'More,speed less haste' the correct saying?
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if it helps settle an argument, it appears that 'more haste less speed' is the slightly more popular turn of phrase according to Googlefight http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=m
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likely reason why it's 50/50 on Google.. the Americans turned it around to express their individuality like they done with so many words; we say tomato, so they say tomayto; i think they got a committee for it. e.g. the ground floor, they say first floor.. the road, they call the pavement.. - true. they trying to get us killed? Hey buddy! Don't drive on the pavement! ... no offence yanks but you do got a way with words.
'More haste, less speed'. To make haste , to hurry is to rush and that is not the same as making good speed, going fast . The proverb points out the inefficiency in rushing around ; the more we rush the more likely we are, for rexample, to forget our keys, money, wallet, map or other essentials so we end up being late . More speed may involve less rushing, less haste; it may not make a difference sometimes; but it is certain that increasing the haste will eventually result in less speed. The Romans had the same proverbial thought : 'Festina lente' ' 'hurry slowly' (sometimes given as 'make haste slowly'); they took the wording from a Greek proverb, so the idea is an old and well-travelled one.