It seems unpleasantly refined
To put things off till someone knows.


William Empson

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
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If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
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Don’t put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.
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Grant me an old man's frenzy,
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that Willia...
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
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I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.
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No one knows what he can do till he tries
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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
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It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
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So your flesh shall be part of mine
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Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
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Seven types of ambiguity.
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Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
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We were hoping to get away early, but we were unpleasantly surprised.
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I have lost everything. Lost everything.
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... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER
Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN
For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN
I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE