Quotes About Delay

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

You must lose time to have time.

Some of us will plant the seed and never see the plant.

Why do they call it rush hour when it lasts days and nobody can rush anywhere?

traffic was as mean as a constipated lion

She wondered why things always took longer than you wanted them to take, unless you wanted them to take a lot longer—then they didn't take nearly long enough. Time sucked.

You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.

I'm waiting," Wrath muttered. "And you know how much I love that shit.

Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.

Sure, baby, mañana." It was always mañana. For the next week that was all I heard—mañana,a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.

For the next week that was all I heard – mañana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven. Little

Everything'll be all right tomorrow, don't you think, Sal-honey, man? Sure, baby, manana.  It was always manana

It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.