狄更斯《大卫·考坡菲》：
Never do tomorrow what you can do today.
今天应该做的事，千万别等到明天。
原文：
'My dear Micawber!' urged his wife.
'I say,' returned Mr. Micawber, quite forgetting himself, and smiling again, 'the miserable wretch you behold. My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.Collar him!'
'My poor papa's maxim,' Mrs. Micawber observed.
“算了吧，我的亲爱的米考伯！”他太太劝他说。
“我说，”米考伯先生回答说，这时候他又完全忘了刚才的情况，满面笑容了，“落到了现在你看见的这种苦恼田地。我要对你说的那几句话是：今天应该做的事，千万别等到明天。因循蹉跎乃光阴之窃贼。快把他一把抓住！”
“这是我那可怜的爸爸所奉的座右铭，”米考伯太太说。
