Ovid Delay Quotations

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]