Delay

"Changing the length of a delay may utterly change behavior. [...] Overshoots, oscillations, and collapses are always caused by delays."

"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know naught of?"

"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer."

"Delay always heeds danger."

"Il fornito Sempre con danno l'attender sofferse."

"Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem."

"With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay."

"Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est."

"Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!"

"Ah! nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate."

"Tolle moras—semper nocuit differre paratis."

"Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt."

"Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius."

"Quod ratio nequiit, sspe sanavit mora."

"Omnis nimium longa properanti mora est."

"Maximum remedium est irse mora."

"Delays have dangerous ends."

"Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary."

"Pelle moras; brevis est magni fortuna favoris."

"Late, late, so late! but we can enter still. Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now."

"And Mecca saddens at the long delay."

"Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way."

"Delay will frequently have, as it ought to have, considerable influence upon the judgment which ought to be formed upon the evidence adduced."

"It is not to be imagined that the King will be guilty of vexatious delays."

"Lex dilationes semper exhorret: The law always abhors delays."

"Lex reprobat moram: The law dislikes delay."

"In the one case, there is a straight road of a mile long, and without a turnpike in it: in the other case, you may go to, or at least towards, the same place by a road of a hundred miles in length—full, accordingly, of turnings and windings—full, moreover, of quicksands and pitfalls, and equally full of turnpikes. In conducting the traveller, nothing obliges the conductors to avoid the straight road, and drag him along the crooked one : nor would they ever have given themselves any such trouble, had it not been for the turnpikes, the tolls of which are so regularly settled, and the tills in such good keeping: learned feet, could they be prevailed on, are no less capable of treading the short road than unlearned ones."