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Quotes About Delay

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
~ William Shakespeare
How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath? The excuse that thou dost make in this delay Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
~ William Shakespeare
Return'd so soon! Rather approached too late: the capron burns, the pig falls from the spit, the clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell; my mistress made it one upon my cheek: she is hot because the meat is cold; the meat is cold because you have no stomach, you have no stomach, having broke your fast; but we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray, are pentent for your default today.
~ William Shakespeare
I have learn'd that fearful commenting Is leaden servitor to dull delay; Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary. Then fiery expedition be my wing, Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king! Go, muster men. My counsel is my shield. We must be brief when traitors brave the field.
~ William Shakespeare
Our tears are not yet brewed.
~ William Shakespeare
What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty; Youth's a stuff will not endure.
~ William Shakespeare
For goodness, growing to a plurisy, Dies in his own too much: that we would do We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues
~ William Shakespeare
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
~ Winston S. Churchill
rebuked his son Oskar for waking him at seven to tell him the news: "Why did you want to wake me up an hour earlier? It would still have been true at eight." And with this he went to sleep again till his usual calling-time.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Sin embargo, una guerra aplazada puede ser una guerra evitada.
~ Winston S. Churchill
there followed a period lasting for about three months of Turkish hesitation and delay, having the effect of consummate duplicity
~ Winston S. Churchill
We have always sent two-thirds of what was necessary a month too late.
~ Winston S. Churchill
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is a far worse war or one much harder to win.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Procrastination is like a credit card it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
~ Christopher Parker
Your show is running late because Keith doesn't want to go on stage until he gets a shepherd's pie.
~ Unknown
I came to you tardy and late as I usually do to the better things in my life
~ Unknown
Learn to be patient..Even time waits for time
~ Unknown
We'll have supper in a little while, but I believe we should eat dessert first.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Nothing happened if she kept waiting for what was going to happen .
~ Clarice Lispector
Arriving back home, I didn't start to read it. I pretended I didn't have it, in order to have, later, the shock of discovering it. I opened it hours later, had a few marvelous lines, closed it again, walked around the house, put it off even more by going to eat a piece of bread with butter, pretended I didn't know where I had left it, found it, opened it for a few instants. I created the most false sense for that covert thing that was joy. Joy would always be covert for me.
~ Clarice Lispector
It's good to hope; it's the waiting that spoils it (Yiddish
~ Colin Dexter
Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
~ Herge
If I had been under ObamaCare, and a bureaucrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.
~ Herman Cain
Operando con cifras enormes y provocando estallidos de frenesí generalizado, empecé a crear demoras. El ticker no podía seguirme el ritmo y durante unos minutos era dueña del futuro. Andrew se volvió una leyenda. Todo el mundo lo tenía por clarividente, por un místico.
~ Unknown