Heap on more wood - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. — Sir Walter Scott. Scottish novelist (1771–1832)
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.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!