Delay

Famous quotes containing the word delay:

    Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion,
    Scarce can endure delay of execution:—
    Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my
    Soul in a moment.
    William Cowper (1731–1800)

    Face troubles from their birth, for ‘tis too late to cure
    When long delay has given the evil strength.
    Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
    He’ll be less ready who’s not ready now.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    Once we began to see our images
    Reflected in the mud and even dust,
    ‘Twas disillusion upon disillusion.
    We were lost piecemeal to the animals,
    Like people thrown out to delay the wolves.
    Nothing but fallibility was left us....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)