Late Quotes - page 3

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind. (William Butler Yeats)

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Marilyn Monroe

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Paul Theroux

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Lord Byron

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Ogden Nash

It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

Pliny the Elder

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Fred Brooks

It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sooner or later usually means too late. (Scott Westerfeld)

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

Eugenio Montale

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

Karen Joy Fowler

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Berkeley Breathed

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

Charles Bass

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

Damon Hill

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Dorothy Gilman

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

Kurt Loder

It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.

Marty Meehan

I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.

Mike Judge

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. (Polly Toynbee)

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Rita Coolidge

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Tobias Wolff

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

Wilford Brimley

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world, do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it with any pleasure.

Samuel Pepys

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