WIST Quotations

Twain, Mark -- “Memoranda: The Late Benjamin Franklin,” epigraph, The Galaxy Magazine (Jul 1870)

Dave — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 21:59:37 +0000

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

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
“Memoranda: The Late Benjamin Franklin,” epigraph, The Galaxy Magazine (Jul 1870)
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Offered as a faux Franklin maxim, in an essay where Twain mocked veneration of Franklin's biography and supposedly original aphorisms.

More background on this quotation: Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Do The Day After Tomorrow Just As Well – Quote Investigator.

Thompson, Hunter S. -- Letter to Hume Logan (22 Apr 1958)

Dave — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:37:42 +0000

A man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) American journalist, writer
Letter to Hume Logan (22 Apr 1958)

Miller, Olin -- (Attributed)

Dave — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:39:31 +0000

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting it off.

Olin Miller (fl. early 20th C) American humorist
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Johnson, Samuel -- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, ch. 6 (1759)

Dave — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:34:00 +0000

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, ch. 6 (1759)
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