deferred pleasure Quotes

This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.