To procrastinate is to delay, to put off doing something. Procrastinating – deferring things from day to day – wastes a lot of time and usually ends in nothing being done at all. The proverb is quotation from the poem Night Thoughts, by Edward Young
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- Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
- Make hay while the sun shines
- Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today
- One of these days is none of these days
- Strike while the iron is hot
- Take time by the forelock
- There is no time like the present
- Tomorrow never comes
- What may be done at any time is done at no time