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Quotes About Late

It's just a matter of time before we're late.
~ Michael A. Walsh
Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is often too late by the time the government reacts.
~ Vandana Shiva
She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, -- now that it was all too late, -- the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.
~ Anthony Trollope
The tallest adults are the ones who had the most childhood and adolescent growth before puberty started; puberty typically tacks on a standard nine inches, and then the game's over. The children who are going to be the biggest adults are those who are tall by age one or two, and have a relatively late puberty, says Rosenfeld.
~ Arianne Cohen
It was only at a late point in its progress that a chorus of comedians was officially granted by the archon; they used to be mere volunteers.
~ Aristotle
Soon after publication 'Superiority' was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT—to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good—and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I must apologize for calling so late, said he, and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Sherlock Holmes...was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The temperature was still in the eighties even though it was almost 1700 hours.
~ Sonny Whitelaw
There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death--who knows?--may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.
~ Sophocles
Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.
~ George Ade
Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.
~ Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
Unless an age too late, or coldClimate, or years damp my intended wing.
~ John Milton
I have no proof of this, but I think the decibel was invented in a bar, late one night, by a committee of drunken electrical engineers who wanted to take revenge on the world for their total lack of dancing partners.
~ John Powell
It's too late. It's too late. Through the open door of the bathroom I see a watersoaked bag on the floor.
~ John Rechy
It won't be just one bomb. And it was always too late, my dear. Can you imagine us tolerating any form of rival intelligence on earth, no matter how it got here? Why, we can't even tolerate anything but the narrowest differences of views within our own race.
~ John Wyndham
Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"..."But I thought it was just the one time?
~ Ellen Schreiber
It's a breath you took too late. It's a death that's worse than fate.
~ Elvis Costello
Pentru unii,totul vine prea tarziu: s-au nascut postum.
~ Emil Cioran
The most difficult of problems is how to change late foes into free friends.
~ bagehot walter vi
Too late for coffee, too early for drink -though when was it ever too early for a glass of Tio Pepe, slightly chilled?
~ Barbara Pym
I came into the film industry when I was 35 years old; I reckon it's a bit late to start with that.
~ Atul Kulkarni
I'm a fan of all music, and probably my first - well, not the very first music I listened to, but back in the late fifties, when I first started hearing rock & roll, it was definitely tinged with doo wop and also Elvis and all those great songs.
~ Timothy B. Schmit