When the plane is delayed it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience hard work chastity and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies people think they aren't important.

If I had been under ObamaCare and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two some century or two but it is sure as life it is sure as death.