Late Quotes - page 2

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment. (Franz Werfel)

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Pearl S. Buck

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

Christopher Morley

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Gerald Ford

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Marie Corelli

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.

Luke Harding

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

Evelyn Waugh

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

Very early in my life it was too late.

Marguerite Duras

When I started worrying about stocks, it was the late 1930s and early 1940s and it didn't seem like a good way to make money then, either. (Merton Miller)

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Robert Jordan

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Henny Youngman

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

Frances Burney

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Lee Iacocca

There is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late.

Oscar Wilde

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Bob Woodward

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

Harpo Marx

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. (Agatha Christie)

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

James A. Michener

It is better to learn late than never.

Publilius Syrus

But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

Alexander McCall Smith

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds.

William Congreve

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