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Changing the length of a delay may utterly change behavior. [...] Overshoots, oscillations, and collapses are always caused by delays.
— Delay
Changing the length of a delay may utterly change behavior. [...] Overshoots, oscillations, and collapses are always caused by delays.
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
Do not delay,Do not delay: the golden moments fly!
Ah! nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
Late, late, so late! but we can enter still. Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.
And Mecca saddens at the long delay.
Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.
Delay will frequently have, as it ought to have, considerable influence upon the judgment which ought to be formed upon the evidence adduced.
It is not to be imagined that the King will be guilty of vexatious delays.
Lex dilationes semper exhorret: The law always abhors delays.
Lex reprobat moram: The law dislikes delay.
