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• 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

  Sweet, Lying, Kissing

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

  Ovid

  Medicine, Too Late, May

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• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  First Love, Sight, Cynical

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Buddhist, Ambition

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• He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Honesty, Today, Eternity

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• Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

  Howard Dean

  Jail, Houston, Sentences

  "Capitol Hill Rhetoric Heats Up Over 'Nuclear Option'". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. May 20, 2005.

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• When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long.
  [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

  Juvenal

  Men, Long, Life Is

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• Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.

  Robert Southwell

  Faults, Force, Thee

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• Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

  Tryon Edwards

  Wisdom, Procrastination, Safety

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.298, Ravenio Books

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• I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

  Dizzy Dean

  Pitching, Sticks, Window

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• The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Blow, Government, Cost

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• If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, President, Foul

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

  Plautus

  Men, World, Youth

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• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

  John C. Maxwell

  Teacher, Life And Love, Failure

  Twitter post from Mar 7, 2016

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• Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

  Julia Glass

  Confusion, Shadow, Lasts

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

  Tom DeLay

  Family, Care, Structure

  "On the role of women in the home". Interview with Armstrong Williams, February 10, 2004.

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• If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

  John Podesta

  Texas, People, House

  "My Interview with CAP President John Podesta". Interview with Jonathan Singer, www.blueoregon.com. March 04, 2005.

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• Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.

  William Congreve

  Wise, Procrastination, May

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• Desires are nourished by delays.

  Thomas Draxe

  Desire

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• Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

  Tom DeLay

  War, Cutting, Important

  "A Cut Too Far" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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• Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
  [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]

  Plautus

  Annoying

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• I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  TV preachers' Congressional luncheon, July 2001.

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• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Odds, Understanding, Might

  "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace, (p. 334), August 1988.

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  Criticism is something we can avoid easily
  by saying nothing, doing nothing,
  and being nothing.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Relationship, Failure

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• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  Ovid

  Punishment, Bitterness, Bitter

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