“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) British journalist
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3rd President of the United States of America 1743–1826Related quotes
“Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Source: Brave New World
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) American Vice President and politician
Reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67. Alternately reported as "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done", reported in Jacob Morton Braude, The Complete Art of Public Speaking (1970), p. 84.
“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Incidentals (1904)
Context: Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemical analysis of its perfume, but the mystic beauty of its form and odor is still a secret, locked in to where we have no keys.
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
