Quotes About Delay

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

Besides acting, I have tons of plans but there is time for it.

Instant gratification takes too long.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

Pay now and play later or play now and pay later.

If impatience would help, Lord Komawara, I would become impatient.

I am as late as the rabbit in Lewis Carroll.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late....

better late than sorry.

Soon is not as good as now.

Patience comes to those who wait.

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

And happiness has it's own way of taking its sweet time.