Famous quotes containing the word postpone:
“We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Face troubles from their birth, for tis too late to cure
When long delay has given the evil strength.
Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
Hell be less ready whos not ready now.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not studying a profession, for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)