A Quote by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Never Off Put Till Today Tomorrow

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British - Celebrity
September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.

Susan Dunlap

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

Stephen Hawking

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Holbrook Jackson

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

Larry Wall

'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

J. A. Spender

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Aaron Burr

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

Larry Wall

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

Josh Billings

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Mark Twain

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

Mark Twain

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today -- for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.