Late Quotes - Page 40

• If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

  James Goldsmith

  Leadership, Motivation, Business

  "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.

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• Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

  B. C. Forbes

  Life, Business, Too Late

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• Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Ashley Montagu

  Motivational, Death, Kids

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• Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Freedom, Tyrants, Democracy

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• Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
  His day's hot task hath ended in the west:
  The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;
  The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
  And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
  Do summon us to part, and bid good night.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Clouds

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.178, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Years

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• But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.

  Natalie Portman

  I Love You, Thinking, Too Late

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• Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

  Martial

  Life, Live For Today, Too Late

  'Epigrammata' bk. 1, no. 15

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• It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.

  Martial

  Life, Wise, Believe

  "Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), I. 16. 11 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• To-morrow I will live, the fool does say;
  To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

  Martial

  Life, Wise, Yesterday

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.251

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• Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Beauty, Ancient

  "Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J." edited by William J. Kelly, 1980.

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• There has fallen a splendid tear
  From the passion-flower at the gate.
  She is coming, my dove, my dear;
  She is coming, my life, my fate;
  The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
  And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
  The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;"
  And the lily whispers, "I wait."

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Flower, Passion

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

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• A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

  Gene Wolfe

  Life, Wise, Men

  Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.338, Macmillan

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• When late I attempted your pity to move,
  Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers?
  Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
  But-why did you kick me downstairs?

  John Philip Kemble

  Life, Prayer, Moving

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• He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Sweet, Poison

  "Hippolytus", CXXXIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 464-484), 1922.

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• He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Too Late

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  Hal Borland

  Weed, Nature, Monday

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• Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.

  Bob Dole

  Hurt, Night, Self

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• The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

  Theodore White

  Lying, Rain, Night

  1969 In the New York Times, 5 Jan.

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• Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dating, Long, Religion

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• Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

  Oscar Wilde

  Anniversary, Funny Love, Real

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• The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Business, Up Early, Oil

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• I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

  Ian Mckellen

  Cute, Character, Play

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• When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.

  Helen Mirren

  Hands, Guy, Age

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