Quotes with late-comers

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  • William Dean Howells A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Better never than late.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alexander Herzen Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • George Orwell It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Michael It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
    George Michael
    English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist (1963 - 2016)
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  • Agatha Christie One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • H. Youngman If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson 't Is not too late to seek a newer world.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Arnold Bennett A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Frank Sinatra A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
    Frank Sinatra
    American singer, actor, and producer (1915 - 1998)
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  • Ezra Pound All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Buddy Rich And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bill Mumy Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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