To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- Sir Walter Scott, (Aug 15 1771-1832), Scottish novelist, poet, historian, biographer; He is often considered both the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel.