Delay Quote by Juvenal

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

— Ovid

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

— Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he…

— Horace

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

— Naz?m Hikmet

Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.

— Markus Zusak

One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via…

— Horace

“Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]”

— Dionysius Cato

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their…

— Robert Payne

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it…

— Samuel Smiles

“Sive parens rerum, cum primum informia regna Materiamque rudem flamma cedente recpit, Fixit in aeternum causas, qua cuncta coercet Se quoque lege tenens, et…

— Lucan

Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

— Seneca the Younger

“Of the life of man the duration is but a point, its substance streaming away, its perception dim, the fabric of the entire body…

— Marcus Aurelius