Absorb A Blow

Accumulate Risk

is, along with hurry, a way of trying to resist the present.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. Alan Watts

 always breeds danger... and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Delay always breeds danger... and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. Miguel de Cervantes

is never appropriate in two cases: in kissing a pretty girl or in opening a bottle of whiskey.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

Delay is preferable to error. — Thomas Jefferson

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. — Parkinson