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Some one speaks admirably of "the welt-ripened fruit of sage delay." - Honore de Balzac Delay always heeds danger. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (bk. IV, ch. III) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays. [It., Il fornito Sempre con danno l'attender sofferse.] - Dante ("Dante Alighieri"), Inferno (XXVIII, 98) One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.] - Quintus Ennius, quoted by Cicero He that riseth late must tread all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. - Benjamin Franklin Delay is as hateful as it is dangerous. - Thomas Holcroft With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. I, 1), (Pope's translation) Away with delay; the change of great fortune is short-lived. [Lat., Pelle moras; brevis est magni fortuna favoris.] - Titus Caius Silius Italicus, Punica (IV, 734) Delay is preferable to error. - Thomas Jefferson When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (VI, 221) He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) When the death of a human being may be the consequence, no delay that is afforded is long. - Legal Maxim Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora (pt. VII) Ah! nothing is too late Till the tires heart shall cease to palpitate. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus (st. 24) Away with delay--it always injures those who are prepared. [Lat., Tolle moras--semper nocuit differre paratis.] - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (I, 281) Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Heroides (XIX, 3) Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Poenulus (III, 1, 1) He that gives time to resolve gives leisure to deny, and warning to prepare. - Francis Quarles Our greatest actions, or of good or evil, The hero's and the murderer's spring at once From their conception: O! how many deeds Of deathless virtue and immortal crime The world had wanted, had the actor said, I will do this to-morrow. - John Russell (1) Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. - Vishnu Sarma Every delay is too long to one who is in a hurry. [Lat., Omnis nimium longa properanti mora est.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Agamemnon (CCCCXXVI) What reason could not avoid, has often been cured by delay. [Lat., Quod ratio nequiit, saepe sanavit mora.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Agamemnon (CXXX) Delay is the greatest remedy for anger. [Lat., Maximum remedium est irae mora.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Ira (II, 28) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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