Time flees away
Without delay. [ Proverb ]
There is danger in delay.
Neither delay nor cessation. [ Virgil ]
Delay of justice is injustice. [ Landor ]
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]
We hate delay, yet it makes us wise. [ Proverb ]
Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
No more delay, vain boaster, but begin. [ Dryden ]
Press onward through each varying hour;
Let no weak fears thy course delay;
Immortal being! feel thy power,
Pursue thy bright and endless way. [ Andrews Norton ]
Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay
In kindness takes the kindness all away. [ Anon ]
Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow. [ J. Ford ]
Misfortune, like a creditor severe.
But rises in demand for her delay;
She makes a scourge of past prosperity
To sting thee more and double thy distress. [ Young ]
All delay is hateful, but it produces wisdom. [ Publius Syrus ]
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.
Resolves - and re-resolves; then dies the same. [ Young ]
These wickets of the soul are placed so high,
Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
And that they may not pierce too violently,
They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
For should the voice directly strike the brain,
It would astonish and confuse it much;
Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain,
That it the organ may more gently touch. [ Sir John Davies ]
Retreat may be success, -
Delay, best speed, - half loss, at times, whole gain. [ Robert Browning ]
Hunger and delay stir up one's bile (in the nostrils). [ Proverb ]
Delay has always been injurious to those who are ready. [ Lucan ]
Crimes succeed by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. [ Tacitus ]
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them. [ L'Estrange ]
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]