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DELAYS are dangerous
Cf.
c
1300
Havelok
(1915) l. 1352 Dwelling haueth ofte scathe [harm] wrouht.
1578
Euphues
I. 212
Delayes breed daungers, nothing so perillous as procrastination.
1655
Gentlemen of Venice
v. 62
Shall we go presently [immediately], delaies are dangerous.
1824
Letters
(1922) p. xxxi.
I have always found on all subjects that ‘delays are dangerous’… It is expedient that we marry young.
1930
Murder en Route
xxxiii.
What a pity Master Hector left it too late … Delays are proverbially dangerous.
1964
Siege of Vienna
iii.
In the autumn of 1682, when .. a Turkish war in the following year was absolutely certain, .. these delays became dangerous.
action and inaction
;
procrastination
c
1300
Havelok
(1915) l. 1352 Dwelling haueth ofte scathe [harm] wrouht.
1578Euphues
I. 212
Delayes breed daungers, nothing so perillous as procrastination.
1655
Gentlemen of Venice
v. 62
Shall we go presently [immediately], delaies are dangerous.
1824
Letters
(1922) p. xxxi.
I have always found on all subjects that ‘delays are dangerous’… It is expedient that we marry young.
1930
Murder en Route
xxxiii.
What a pity Master Hector left it too late … Delays are proverbially dangerous.
1964
Siege of Vienna
iii.
In the autumn of 1682, when .. a Turkish war in the following year was absolutely certain, .. these delays became dangerous.
action and inaction;
procrastination
Derbyshire
deserve
DESPERATE diseases must have desperate remedies
The proverb is found in many variant forms. Cf. L.
extremis malis extrema remedia
, extreme remedies for extreme ills.
1539
tr.
Erasmus' Adages
4
A stronge disease requyreth a stronge medicine.
1600
–
1
Hamlet
IV. iii. 9
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all.
1639
Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina
200
Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.
1659
Hist. Collections
I. 120
According to the usual Proverb, A desperate disease must have a desperate remedy.
1748
Clarissa
VI. 292
I must .. have an interview with the charmer of my Soul: For desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
1935
Toll House Murder
ix.
These circumstances are wholly exceptional. Desperate diseases, they say, call for desperate remedies.
1961
She shall Die
xi.
She'd have sold the roof over her head sooner than have you know. Desperate situations require desperate remedies.
1997
Washington Post
3 Mar. D1
‘Desperate times call for desperate measures,’ Poile said Saturday after trading Carey.
necessity
extremis malis extrema remedia
, extreme remedies for extreme ills.
1539tr.
Erasmus' Adages
4
A stronge disease requyreth a stronge medicine.
1600
–
1
Hamlet
IV. iii. 9
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all.
1639
Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina
200
Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.
1659
Hist. Collections
I. 120
According to the usual Proverb, A desperate disease must have a desperate remedy.
1748
Clarissa
VI. 292
I must .. have an interview with the charmer of my Soul: For desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
1935
Toll House Murder
ix.
These circumstances are wholly exceptional. Desperate diseases, they say, call for desperate remedies.
1961
She shall Die
xi.
She'd have sold the roof over her head sooner than have you know. Desperate situations require desperate remedies.
1997
Washington Post
3 Mar. D1
‘Desperate times call for desperate measures,’ Poile said Saturday after trading Carey.
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