Delay
A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
To allay; to temper.
To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
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Delay Quotations
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Thomas Paine
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Vladimir Lenin
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
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Ovid
Delay Translations
delay in Afrikaans is vertraging
delay in Dutch is vertraging
delay in Italian is tardare, spostare, ritardo, ritardo
delay in Latin is cesso, duco, cunctatio, prodico, mora
delay in Norwegian is forsinke, utsette, utsettelse, forsinkelse
delay in Portuguese is atraso
delay in Spanish is retrasar, demorar, retraso, aplzar, dilatoria
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