Haste makes waste – Meaning of Proverb with a political story

Haste makes waste – Meaning of Proverb with a political story-
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Synonyms - look before you leap

Haste makes waste
Meaning –



1. When we act too quickly ("haste") we are more likely to make mistakes and end up with poor results ("waste").
2. If you try to do something quickly, without planning it, you're likely to end up spending more time, money, etc, doing it.
3. Acting too quickly may actually slow things down.
4. You do not save any time by working too fast; hurrying will cause you to make mistakes, and you will have to take extra time to do the job over again.


Haste makes wastes -
A political story explaining the meaning of this proverb.

In India there are many education boards like SSC, CBSE and ICSE.
Up to 10th standard these board have their own education system.
As a human nature every board says that our education system is best and other is ok.

Problem in India is that Best education collages are very few; one can count them on fingers in Mumbai.
After passing the 10th exam every parent wants that his son or daughter should get admission in this best collage.
But Best collages have limited seats for the 11th standard and students who want admission they are ten times more than the available seats in those collages.

Now Government of Maharashtra has to solve this problem.
But our Maharashtra government ministers are so busy every year they wake up after the results of 10th exam and see that parents are fighting for the admission, they make rule in haste without studying the law.

Now after declaring the rule in haste the ministers think that their job is over, but other students go to the Court and court cancels the Rule which is wrong , which is made in haste, In haste government end up making the unconstitutional rule .
Which waste the time, money of every student of Maharashtra.

Last three years this is happening in Maharashtra
Government makes the rule in haste and Judiciary every year tells them do not make wrong rules.

Every year parents and students waste their time because of haste of ministers and their officers.


Small story explaining haste makes waste –

1. When we go to hotel, we order food and wait, suppose if we do not wait and do the haste what will happen, do you think the waiter will bring tasty food?

History regarding the proverb haste makes waste –

"The notion of haste can be traced back at least to the apocryphal 'Book of Wisdom' (c. 190 B.C.) by Jesus Ben Sirach, which contained the line, 'There is one that toileth and laboureth, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind.'
Centuries later, Chaucer wrote in 'Canterbury Tales' (c. 1387), 'in wikked haste is not profit.’
A longer version of the saying was quoted in John Ray's 'A Collection of English Proverbs' (1678)