“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
The quote "Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends." is famous quote by William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English playwright and poet.
Alençon, Act III, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter, Ch. 2.
“We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.”
UN Address (1999)
Context: We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
We might know that the work is very urgent and important but we still might find ourselves being slow to start the task.
page 100
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“Dear Friends, for we have many Dangers past,
And greater, God these too will end at last.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 16, “Ragnarok: The Final Destiny of the Gods” (p. 278)
“horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle”
“Give not rein to your hot mood, give time, a little delay; impulse is ever a bad servant.”
Ne frena animo permitte calenti,
da spatium tenuemque moram, male cuncta ministrat
impetus.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 703. Variant translation: Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.