Too Late Quotes

Better reap two days too soon than one day too late

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Warsaw is burning. Warsaw is fighting its enemy in this last mortal battle. All the promises let us down, the help did not arrive. Lack of food and lack of potable water paralyzes and weakens. Yet we fight: with the enemy, with the fire and with the epidemics. Everyone is fighting. Whole city is tied in this mortal struggle. You send us letters of compliments and best wishes from London and Paris. We don't want wishes any more, nor do we await your help. It's too late for help. Before it arrives there will be only rubble here, a corpses-covered, leveled terrain. What we await is revenge. We expect that you will start fighting one day, just like Warsaw is… A day will come when Berlin will be set on flames, when German women and children will die just like ours are dying. I hope all of you will understand then that there is God's justice.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

In eighteen states in this white man's country and also in the District of Columbia, where the Nation's Capitol is located, intermarriage of the races is permitted by law. This fact is a national shame, or should I say crime, against the white race of America, and I pray God that these states and the Congress of the United States … will do something about this situation before it is too late

I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year It's got to be drummed In your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade, You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hate all the people your relatives hate, You've got to be carefully taught!

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

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.

No one took H.U.A.C. [House Un-American Activities Committee] seriously until it was too late.

If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don't want to hear about it. But when it's too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That's human nature.