Quotes with late-comers

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  • Samuel Johnson Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Maris Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Billy Childish Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • William Congreve Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • A. N. Wilson Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) ch. 24
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Carol Loomis By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Billy Joel Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait. You Catholic girls start much too late, Ah, but sooner or later it comes down to fate. I might as well be the one.
    Only the Good Die Young (1977)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Seneca Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Gerald R. Ford 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 R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Anne Edwards For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.
    Anne Edwards
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Ali Smith Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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