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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.—QUINTUS ENNIUS
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Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.—JOHN FORD, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore
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With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.—HOMER, Odyssey
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Delay is preferable to error.—JEFFERSON, Writings
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When a man's life is at stake, no delay is too long.—JUVENAL, Satires
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Do not delay,
Do not delay: the golden moments fly!—LONGFELLOW, Masque of Pandora
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Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.—LUCAN, The Civil War
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And sweet reluctant amorous delay.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
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Delay is a great procuress.—OVID, Art of Love
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.—PLAUTUS, Paenulus
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Delays increase desires, and sometimes extinguish them.—Proverb
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Deliberating is not delaying.—Proverb
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Better late than never.—Proverb
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'Tis wisdom's use
Still to delay what we dare not refuse.—SCOTT, Harold the Dauntless
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Every delay is too long to one who is in a hurry.—SENECA, Agamemnon
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Delay is the greatest remedy for anger.—SENECA, De Ira
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Delays have dangerous ends.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
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Dull not device by coldness and delay.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
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The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
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Late, late, so late! but we can enter still.
Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now:—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
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And Mecca ,saddens at the long delay.—JAMES THOMSON,The Seasons
