Delay Quotes

Delay is preferable to error. (Thomas Jefferson)

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Seneca

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

C. Northcote Parkinson

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

Oliver Goldsmith

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Andy Grove

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

William Goldman

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Waitley

If we die we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

Gus Grissom

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. (Thomas Paine)

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

Ai Weiwei

Make haste; delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Lucan

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

Horace Walpole

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

Peter Jackson

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

Charles Baudelaire

At thirty man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves then dies the same.

Edward Young

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

Garth Nix

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. (Miguel de Cervantes)

Delay always breeds danger.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don't delay these trials. This is a revolution, the proofs are secondary. We have to proceed by conviction. They are a gang of criminals and murderers. Besides, remember that there is an Appeals Tribunals.

Che Guevara

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

Jorge Luis Borges

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

John F. Kennedy

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