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title: "6 Delay Quotes By Ovid"
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> [Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/face-troubles-from-their-birth-for-tis-too-late-to-cure-when-long/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b21/ovid-276_birth_face-troubles-from-their-birth-for-tis-t_143309.jpg)

> [Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/meet-the-disorder-in-the-outset-the-medicine-may-be-too-late-when-the/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/ovid-276_delay_meet-the-disorder-in-the-outset-the-medi_280292.png)

> [Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/death-is-less-bitter-punishment-than-death-s-delay/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/663/ovid-276_bitter_death-is-less-bitter-punishment-than-dea_565682.png)

> [ Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. \[Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/every-delay-that-postpones-our-joys-is-long-lat-longa-mora-est-nobis/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b06/ovid-276_delay_every-delay-that-postpones-our-joys-is-l_1148294.png)

> [At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/at-times-it-is-folly-to-hasten-at-other-times-to-delay-the-wise-do/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb0/ovid-276_delay_at-times-it-is-folly-to-hasten-at-other_2704710.png)

> [Delay is a great procuress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/delay-is-a-great-procuress/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48f/ovid-276_delay_delay-is-a-great-procuress-2986142_2986142.png)

## Other authors on Delay

## More by Ovid

> [Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/every-woman-thinks-herself-attractive-even-the-plainest-is-satisfied/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/suppressed-grief-suffocates-it-rages-within-the-breast-and-is-forced/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/honesty-by-evil-fortune-tried-finds-in-adversity-the-seed-of-praise/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/it-is-some-alleviation-to-ills-we-cannot-cure-to-speak-of-them/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [ A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. \[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/a-mind-conscious-of-right-laughs-at-the-falsehoods-of-rumour-lat/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Time is generally the best doctor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/time-is-generally-the-best-doctor/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/it-is-convenient-that-there-be-gods-and-as-it-is-convenient-let-us/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/i-hate-a-woman-who-offers-herself-because-she-ought-to-do-so-and-cold/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/the-sea-s-vast-depths-lie-open-to-the-fish-wherever-the-breezes-blow/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/rare-is-the-virtue-that-s-not-ruled-by-fortune-that-stands-unshaken/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/thus-all-things-altered-nothing-dies-and-here-and-there-the-unbodied/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/how-little-is-the-promise-of-the-child-fulfilled-in-the-man/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/judgement-of-beauty-can-err-what-with-the-wine-and-the-dark/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/leave-war-to-others-tis-protesilaus-part-of-love/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/remove-but-the-temptations-of-leisure-and-the-bow-of-cupid-will-lose/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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