Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Kin Hubbard
And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
Sanford I. Weill
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Pierre Corneille
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.
Claire Danes
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
Marc Faber
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