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DELAY DELIGHT

They look into the beauty of thy mind,
And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds.

Sonnet LXIX.

I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts,
And will with deeds requite thy gentleness.

Titus Andronicus. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 236.

Go in, and cheer the town; we'll forth and fight;
Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night.

Troilus and Cressida. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 92.

One good deed dying tongueless
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
Our praises are our wages.

Winter's Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 92.

You do the deeds,
And your ungodly deeds find me the words.

Sophocles — Electra. L. 624. Milton's trans.

You must take the will for the deed.

Swot — Polite Conversation. Dialogue II.

(See also Cebber)

DELAY 

Delay always heeds danger.

Cervantes — Don Quixote. Bk. IV. Ch. III.

(See also Henry VI.)

II fornito
Sempre con danno l'attender sofferse.

It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays.

Dante— Inferno. XXVIII. 98.

(See also Lucan)

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

One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.

Ennius — Quoted by Cicero.

With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

Homer— Odyssey. Bk. I. 1. Pope's trans.

Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long.

Juvenal — Satires. VI. 221.

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

Longfellow — Masque of Pandora. Pt. VII.

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

Longfellow — Morituri Salutamus. St. 24.

Tolle moras — semper nocuit differre paratis.

Away with delay — it always injures those who are prepared.

Lucan — Pharsalia. I. 281.

(See also Dante)

Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long.

Ovid—Heroides. XLX.. 3.

Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.

Plautus — Panulus. III. 1. 1.

Quod ratio nequiit, sspe sanavit mora.

What reason could not avoid, has often been cured by delay.

Seneca — Agamemnon. CXXX.

Omnis nimium longa properanti mora est.

Every delay is too long to one who is in a hurry.

Seneca— -Agamemnon. CCCCXXVI.

Maximum remedium est irse mora.

Delay is the greatest remedy for anger.

Seneca — Delra. II. 28. (Same in Bk. Ill, with "dilatio" for "mora.")

Delays have dangerous ends.

Henry VI. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 33. (See also Cervantes)

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 53.

Pelle moras; brevis est magni fortuna favoris.

Away with delay; the chance of great fortune is short-lived.

Silius Italicus—Punica. IV. 734.

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

Tennyson—Idylls of the King. Guinevere. L. 169.

And Mecca saddens at the long delay.

Thomson—The Seasons. Summer. L. 979.

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

Proverb quoted in Clement Walker's History of Independency. The Mysterie of the Two Juntos.

DELFT

What land is this? Yon pretty town
Is Delft, with all its wares displayed:
The pride, the market-place, the crown
And centre of the Potter's trade.

Longfellow—Keramos. L. 66.

DELIGHT

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Burke— The Sublime and Beautiful. Pt. I. Sec. 14.

Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.

Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 321.

Why, all delights arc vain; and that most vain,
hich with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 72.