
ProverbPerseverance
English origin1562
No time like the present
Meaning: Delaying action until tomorrow squanders today's opportunities and capacity to accomplish things.
Origin: An English saying urging action now rather than later. A version is recorded in Gerard Legh's Accidens of Armory in 1562, and the exact modern wording appears in Mary de la Rivière Manley's play The Lost Lover (1696).
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